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      • AngryPancake
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        7 months ago

        Because everyone can spin up their own irc server. It’s not federated though.

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
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      7 months ago

      irc is booring and dated

      (even though it’s much more robust than matrix and does not suffer from desyncs and stuff)

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        does not suffer from desyncs

        Not entirely true. IRC can have network splits (I believe they were referred to as netsplits if I remember correctly) where one network can drop out. You can notice this when you see like 50+ people leave a channel at the exact same time because the network they were on disconnected, it’s kind of interesting imo lol but also I’m a nerd so maybe that’s why I find it interesting.

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          it’s not as big of an issue as on matrix.
          stuff can desync and the server has to decide which state is canonical, dropping out some messages