How is IRC decentralized?
There’s also IRC
daq@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Because everyone can spin up their own irc server. It’s not federated though.
There’s also IRC
How is IRC decentralized?
Because everyone can spin up their own irc server. It’s not federated though.
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