I just realized I've been hanging on #IRCNet for more than 30 years now.
Seems like #Matrix or the #IRC #IRCNet–Matrix bridge is acting flakey, so quite possibly related to this #Cloudflare downtime.

Just learned #identd because some #ircnet servers think it helps anything when they force people with certain IP addresses, which they identify as "VPS", to enable it.

TL;DR: With identd running on the client, the server can ask which user has opened the connection by mapping the source tcp port to the user.

The identd's client answer, of course, can be spoofed when you are the administrator of the client machine. So I don't understand what this is all about.

On the topic of #IRC, there is now a #Mastodon channel on #IRCnet. It's very very quiet though.
@svabonius I just arrived there in a puff of smoke. #IRCnet, I assume? 🙂
You age is showing if you remember the channel takeover wars on #IRCNet in the 90:s.
IRC or Internet Relay Chat – SinusPL's Blog

Boy ... #IRCNet. Those were the days, right? Shoutout to all the folks who might float around here and remember, too ;)
Wait, what!?
What happened to #ircnet??

Doing stuff with #Gentoo brings me back to simpler times. Hanging out in #IRC on #IRCNet, chatting to other nerds on our #gentoo.is channel. using the command /playing to display which song we were playing in #XMMS2, ricing out our WM/DE, t.A.T.u. were the new big thing around the world with their hit "All the things she said"..

Simpler times!