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by curiousgal 3240 days ago
Soo..IRC?
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Nope. On IRC you get to choose your nickname.
I think it's a little different in the sense that identities are tied to individual messages instead of individual people.

When there's a conversation going, you can't tell how many people you're talking to, so the experience is a bit different in an important way.