[floatingatoll]

I miss the chat social culture of the 90s, and all of my IRC nostalgia is really just for that. ICQ, IRC, it was all different then. After the 90s we had the blog era and that was fine until Google and Facebook indexed and monetized searches and networks. Now there’s Slack and Discord, which are still too persistent to be truly safe but have regained much of the undiscoverability that makes small communities possible. Perhaps someday we’ll regain safety, and then it will be like 90s IRC but with good UX and more wisdom about the harm tech did to us in service of feature creep. Good luck and be well, sungo.