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Re:IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD by superkuh on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:43AM (#33482544)
You're right. In the last decade or so the capabilities of the average internet user have degraded significantly. Should we handicap all software to accommodate these people? Profit motive says yes and incorporated entities surely will do so. But it is not the right move for human persons.
Re:IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD by akerl_ on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:52AM (#33482619)
The people with bad internet connections are human persons.

The idea that to make something that works for those people we have to make systems that are worse for people with fast internet is a false dichotomy. We can (and should) make services and systems that work well for everybody.

Re:IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD by Gigachad on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:12PM (#33485825)
How exactly is it handicapped? Last I saw, modern software like Matrix does everything IRC does and 100x more.
Re:IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD by superkuh on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:23AM (#33506096)
That's exactly it. Mobile phone users have to use things like matrix with extremely heavy protocol overhead and someone else hosting their client software and maintaining connection (for the vast majority it's element.io in browser using their owned matrix.org homeserver).