Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Same. I've returned to things like IRC for my online social time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Isn't that shit still sent in plaintext and permanently logged for all to see?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe by default IRC is only logged if the client opts to log it. I don't remember being able to see message history when joining a channel back in the day, so I'm not sure if servers themselves keep logs by default.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How does one get on irc and are there specific rooms that are good? Hope that question makes sense. I ar tek dumb.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

so (and this may have changed, i used to go on irc mainly in the fuckin 90s) but you need a client, back in the day the big ones were mIRC and pIRCh. i am an mIRC loyalist myself.

it comes with a server list, you just double click on a server and itll connect you. then if you type /list it will list all the channels (rooms). you can see how many people are in each channel, and you can double click on the channel list to join one. then type away

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You need to download a client, and then you connect to a server. Once on a server, you can join (and create) channels.

https://www.irchelp.org/faq/irctutorial.html

As far as servers go, I personally enjoy tilde.chat and libera.chat

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