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 < nanog@lists.nanog.org> 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 <mark@zealnetworks.ca> 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: mark@zealnetworks.ca // W: https://zealnetworks.ca
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