[bitfolk] Re: Where's the Chat At?

Hello, On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:45:19PM +0000, Ed Neville via BitFolk Users wrote: As they're a centralised for-profit company they have published their financials and they have 175 million active users. The largest current IRC network is Libera, with 34k connected users (many will be bots and idlers). The largest ever IRC network was QuakeNet which had 240k users in 2005. Today is has ~6½k. I don't like Discord but it has totally eclipsed IRC and it is a place where projects and communities have their chat rooms. If you watch any YouTuber or streamer on any topic at all (except porn, because Discord is puritanical AF) if they have a chat community it will be Discord. As far as I can see the only communities that avoid Discord are those that find centralised proprietary services to be an extreme negative. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting