Post #3555728

2026-07-03 11:53 UTC

@Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith @bonifartius@noauthority.social @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @menherahair@eientei.org It may be a bit weird if you don't understand the underlying protocol, but it most definitely doesn't impact regular chatting behaviour. Im in a few dozen channels right now, across a handful of servers, and I see no flood kills in the past month in the logs. I'd also note that flood kills aren't part of the IRC spec as far as I'm aware, its handled by the server/network. Oftentimes, opers are exempt from flood killing, for instance, and you could run your own IRC server where no flood killing is done at all.

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@menherahair@eientei.org 2026-07-03 12:04

@tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith @bonifartius@noauthority.social @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com it may be weird if you don't routinely write more than 1 line of text to people but having ability to do so doesn't stop you from casual chatting, in fact it has no downsides which is why every chat protocol created after irc takes it for granted. this is also the case for all features supplementing message exchanges of scope comparable to email exchanges and somewhere beyond - it's understood having them is a good thing, so that the scope can grow to reasonable degrees as necessary. xmpp was partially designed as a replacement for emails. this is not "abuse" or "feature bloat" or whatever, this design was driven by observed use and needs of earlier chat technology. you're a fucking caveman

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