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  • 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)

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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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        7 months ago

        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