Why do some IRC servers enable unregistered chat moreso than other chat services (e.g. Discord)?
Not that I'm complaining, I just find it kinda interesting given how so much stuff demands you sign up & register to do much of anything on a service or site.
Is it simply a cool cultural element that's persisted since IRC's been around? Also shoutout to all the old hat IRC folks out there maintaining their servers and enabling drop-in questions this way, much appreciated!
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Oh yeah, plenty of them! libera.chat is by far the biggest known network right now but twitch chat is secretly an IRC network too. netsplit.de lists a whole bunch of networks!
Huh. I honestly had no idea. There were basically no people left on Dalnet and Undernet last time I was there.
Core memory unlocked
TIL,
Last time I went on IRC was more than 10 years ago, and it was already a bit "outdated nostalgia at the time"