Comment on What are some out-of-the-box ideas you've heard of?
thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
A messaging platform based on irc. Extend the syntax to include markdown or html like extensions to plain text to make rich clients possible. But use existing irc infrastructure (servers) as the base.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The problem with that is that irc is from a time when security wasn’t just an afterthought, it just wasn’t there at all. Irc by itself has no user accounts, the first one in a room to claim a name gets it. There no encryption at all, so no secure identity verification is possible. By the time you’ve fixed those things out won’t look like irc anymore.