>Just a few months ago freenode underwent a hostile takeover and unlike most Discord communities, it is probably not coming back from that BS. I can run my own IRC server or use a variety of preexisting IRC networks which typically are fairly lax on over-enforcement unlike Discord. I'm in no control over what Discord deems appropriate and they can terminate my "server" (Guild) that they're letting me use at their own whim (or by accident) with little to no recourse. IRC is just a protocol, Discord is a service provider. >IRC is not immune from this kind of childish meddling. There are a lot of smart, creative, emotionally intelligent folks stuck for lack of opportunity, and it seems like if you value GDP growth or general societal forward momentum on a whole, then maximizing access to those opportunity footholds should be a first-order priority of society.Īnyway, thanks IRC, and the folks who maintained / maintain it. I think about this quite a bit: Unevenly distributed opportunity.
Everything kinda barreled forward from there. But that was it: Through a bit of weird gumption and blocks of colored ascii, I was working at a design agency in Silicon Valley. I drove across America in a beat up Honda Civic where the muffler fell off halfway there. I made connections when I was 13 to folks who ran the groups, folks 6-10 years old that me, and was offered my first internship in the Bay Area through IRC. My gateway drug was ANSi art, and that whole scene. It's scary to think about how much impact something like a chat server could have. What's wild to me is how IRC was the wormhole that essentially got me out of my small hometown, and established everything I've been able to do over the last thirty years.
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