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.
AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s also IRC
vox@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
irc is booring
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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.
vox@sopuli.xyz 2 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
hamid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Net splits are definitely a thing on IRC lol
daq@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
How is IRC decentralized?
AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Because everyone can spin up their own irc server. It’s not federated though.