AJ Sadauskas
Does anyone here in Australia still use IRC? If so, which server/s do you use?

I noticed AustNet seems to still be around, or at least have a website up (https://www.austnet.org/index.php), but it doesn't seem particularly active?

#IRC #MIRC #Australia
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Mar 1 at 12:40amWeb
Show threadCycling StuMar 1
@aj paging @mike
Show threadMike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Mar 1

@stufromoz @aj I don't really *use* IRC much, I just watch a couple of channels for specific projects. It's all on the Libera Chat network.

I did poke at an Australian one a while back but yeah it wasn't very active and I can't even recall which. I'd have to get my 486 plugged in and check my mIRC config. 😎

Show threadCycling StuMar 1
@mike @aj I knew you had some IRC connection, so you were the first person I thought of
Show threadMike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Mar 1

@stufromoz @aj see also

https://social.chinwag.org/@mike/116050256498736106

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] (@[email protected])

If anyone's super keen on IRC, there's a #chinwag on Libera if you're looking for somewhere to chill. Don't be a dick. :awesome:

Chinwag Social
Show threadMason Loring BlissMar 1
@aj I've seen Australian folks on both Libera.chat and on OFTC. Maybe still on EFnet but I'm not sure.
Show threadinit6Mar 1
@mason @aj I'm in a channel with some Australians on libera
Show threadAJ SadauskasMar 1
@init6 @mason Which channels, out of curiosity?

I'm playing around with bridging XMPP to IRC, and am keen to find a reasonably active local (or at least in our time zone) channel.
Show threadMason Loring BlissMar 1
@aj @init6 All free software channels here. Debian, FreeBSD, Slackware, others. The Debian and Debian-derivative channels have the most folks from down there, at a glance. Not a ton but they could help find more.
Show threadAdam ♿Mar 1

@aj I didn't know AustNet was still around!

I am on OFTC and Libera.chat for open source stuff, but some projects are using bridged Matrix servers.

Show threadAJ SadauskasMar 1
@voltagex It's still around in the sense that it has a website and I just successfully logged into it.

But if you look at the channels list, it doesn't seem particularly live, in the sense of active, anymore: https://www.austnet.org/channels.php
Channels - AustNet

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Show threadAJ SadauskasMar 1
@voltagex I stand corrected.

A few IRC channels on Austnet.org, like #Sydney #Melbourne and #Australia, do seem to be reasonably active.
Show threadAJ SadauskasMar 5
@voltagex Turns out there's some drama going down in the old IRC mines.

The main channel on Austnet these days is #Melbourne. Most of the others are empty.

For the past few weeks, someone's been sporadically flooding that main channel with hundreds of bots that all post the same quote by one of the mods, out of context.

They've also periodically been spamming random users with hundreds of DMs from hundreds of bots in the space of a few minutes.

Because IRC, or at least the version AustNet runs, is '90s tech, there's very little in the way of spam protection.

The mod who's the main target of the attacks is convinced this is the CIA coming to get him for being critical about America's war effort.

Because /clearly/ American intelligence is going to expend resources on one mod in on an obscure platform with maybe a couple of dozen users.

Anyways.

Some of the other mods either think this mod is behind the floods, or at provoking them to happen, or at the very least unwilling to stop them.
Show threadspilt infinitiveMar 1
@aj I'm on Slashnet, personally
Show threadzoomosisMar 1

@aj Not for years. It became too much of a time sink.

FWIW there's also OzOrg https://www.ozorg.net/ which seems to be inspired by the original Aussie oz.org network that split off from Undernet (I think?) in ~1996, but seems to be run by different people.

OzOrg