posted ago by djmarcone
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In light of big tech censorship and persecution of MAGA folks, any IRC rooms out there?
IRC is old school and largely under the radar.
In light of big tech censorship and persecution of MAGA folks, any IRC rooms out there?
IRC is old school and largely under the radar.
This is probably a good idea. Or something similar.
At this rate, do we go back to news:alt.Maga?
Yes!
Not quite an irc but VOAT is also a good place outside of .win
Geeking out:
IRC and the default (TCP/UDP) port 6667 get some unwanted attention with some firewalls default port who treat it as bad, because a couple of Botnet C&Cs ran over it once upon a time.
If an IRC server is fired up, it can also be worth using the standard port as well as a server running somewhere other than 6667. There are encrypted versions of IRC, use those to avoid deep packet inspection.
Failing that, chat over https:// makes it through most problems.
There is a TDW associated Discord [link above in TDW banner], but last time I posted about that, there were negative feelings expressed about Discord. At the least, it could be used to coordinate other communications.
Also use SSL certificate encryption, port 6697
What is IRC? whats the difference from a normal chat room?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
hey, we have an unofficial gathering of pedes in #thedonald on irc.ircnet.com ... feel free to stop by :-)
Let's all rush off to unencrypted chat rooms where our public ip address is available, well, publicly.
Nah, I'm good. I use vpn and tor but speaking for most of the population, irc is not a good means to communicate even from a basic privacy standpoint.
You can use IRC over VPN tho?
Yes but probably not in the manner you are thinking. Basically you pay a monthly fee to one of these VPN companies and all of your traffic goes through their servers, therefore your traffic is encrypted from point A to B (you to the VPN provider) but not from point B to C. (VPN provider to IRC server) At least you're protected from your ISP snooping on what you're doing and a lot of these VPN hosts are overseas where the US has no jurisdiction. I'll leave it at that but if you're interested I'd suggest you do some research on the subject.
Indeed! For example, for longest time I appreciated the PrivateInternetAccess company, because it was originally involved with the TPB crew, but in recent times I learned that scammer (so much history/perspective to recognize/understand narratives of truth vs lies) Mark Karpeles got involved with PIA, and when I saw that, I immediately realized I definitely no longer have any interest whatsoever in even thinking about using PIA for any reason, cuz it's definitely not trustworthy, given my familiarity/observations.
But taking that into consideration for practically all the other companies that I don't even know the people to know whether or not they are trustworthy, I don't even pay attention to VPN service providers at all anymore, but that's just me.
https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/SSL/TLS