There is nothing like the simplicity of IRC. TBH, I don't care if the smiling face emoji is animated or just two ASCII characters. Most of the clients - Discord, Slack, are heavyweight and fairly insecure, which also begs the question, what happened to those people that were security conscious? I am not ranting here but I am pointing out the simple fact that people are spending too much time on distractions and not on the actual function and goal they are trying to achieve. Every 2-3 years, there is a new social media hotness that sweeps the crowds and then we end up even more fragmented.
Should we consider starting a IRC server for NANOG, or simply setting up a chat group on Signal? That's at least to solve the NANOG crowd problem... Or should we pick one of Discord and Slack? (none of which I'm a fan TBH)... We should have a meet up in person during the next NANOG! No cell phones allowed during the meet up! ;) Cheers, Krassi On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM Andrew Latham via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: > I will make note that two things cause me caution when socializing. > > 1. NDAs (so many!!!!) > 2. Spear Phishing > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM Mark Prosser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2025-08-20 20:45, Andrew Latham wrote: > > > "Get off my lawn!" :P > > > > > > * Direct chat with peers > > > * Mailing Lists > > > > > > I avoid walled gardens like discord. I do miss Google+ where I could > > > make my posts globally visible without any ads. Used to run "The > > > Backbone Of The Internet" group there. > > > > > > > :P > > > > You're definitely not wrong to avoid the walled gardens. > > > > I gave Google+ a try a long time ago but I never really explored the > > groups. > > > > I guess I forgot to mention I'm on Mastodon & Bluesky. I prefer the > > former, but there isn't much NetEng talk going on there. > > > > Warm regards, > > > > -- > > Mark Prosser > > // E: [email protected] > > // W: https://zealnetworks.ca > > > > -- > - Andrew "lathama" Latham - > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/42LEGGJ6XHGLFBLFXGUMCS7BWHSCU7ET/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IAO3KOILKEBAAO4GHLOCVJ3MMHM5MY5O/
