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Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by tomjen3 on Saturday September 01, 2018 @03:01PM (#17893397)
The problem with the facebook analogy is that you can make private groups that you can heavily moderate.
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Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by draugadrotten on Saturday September 01, 2018 @03:40PM (#17893575)
IRC had closed or private channels and the open channels were heavily moderated as well. I was a #linux moderator on EFnet for several years.

I believe the success of IRC is not due to the greatness of the tool but the userbase. It was pretty much university students world-wide and a few others. Similar behaviours, trainings, ideals etc. Facebook has a lot more diversity and thus conflict.

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