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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2017 03:32:27 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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   • strypey
   IRC is decentralised and open and seldom has requirements to register accounts. That's good enough for the most part. And there are eye-candy-filled IRC clients out there - a community called "Funplanet" with browser gamea etc. during the '90s had an IRC chat, usable with their simple web client as well as ordinary IRC clients.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2017 04:05:09 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • strypey
     @strypey I'm afraid your argument that "IRC is fragmented" doesn't really hold. First of all, IRC clients tend to be friendly for multi-server and multi-channel use. No weird stuff. Slack however is extremely fragmented. Despite being a single company running a single service, they don't even have Single Sign On (remember, IRC has no sign on at all, problem solved). So…
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   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2017 04:08:18 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • strypey
     @strypey Also, I hear the IRC bridge kinda sucks because you lose a lot of context and meaning due to low priority for non-official-Slack-tracking-software..
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2017 04:41:21 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • strypey
     @strypey What needs to be done is for someone to start a business that doesn't reinvent the wheel and then sell it to people who Do Good. The problem is that you can't start a business and compete properly in a capitalist market without Doing Evil. And thus all the people who Do Good will think, as they are only ordinary people who believe products and services can onl…