Notices by Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@rdrama.cc)

@nekofag @grumbulon @Shyle @sam My French is pretty bad but here’s a rough translation. The thing at the top doesn’t make sense to me, “pas l(ao)in de la plaque” doesn’t make sense to me, I suspect it’s an idiom that I haven’t learned yet.

On the fourth panel, the dog says “I am the optichien” and then “read the bottom line.” “Optichien” is a pun in french,

“Chien” = dog (the ch is pronounced like “sh” in English) Opticien = eye doctor So combined, the word is “Optichien.”

@nk @PhenomX6 @charliebrownau @ryo Everything about IT nerds is higher quality than normies.

Normies are destroying our current clearnet by flocking to centralized, spyware services (such as Discord, Facebook, etc.) and thus creating a “network” effect where others are almost forced to use them.

Normies are enabling the corrupt financial system by refusing to use Monero, and insisting on credit cards. Even worse, many see cryptocurrency as “investment opportunities” and cause the prices to be volatile. They keep their coins in central exchanges, or even worse, investment apps such as Robinhood (which does not even allow you to send your bitcoins to an actual address).

Normies are destroying what little freedom the clearnet has left, by demanding that companies such as Cloudflare drop clients because they’re controversial.

Normies treat the Internet like real life, they make things less fun by being offended by people acting like retards for fun.

I’m not saying that any of these things are exclusive to normies, there are nerds cough cough trannies who do the same thing, but it’s a lot more common amongst normies.

A network of exclusively IT nerds would be much more pleasant. The i2p community demonstrates this pretty well!

@ryo @PhenomX6 @charliebrownau

You’ll be surprised by how many people find it difficult though.

Trust me, I’m well aware that many people find it difficult lmfao.

IP address is pretty well hidden, it’s a feature of Ergo (IRC server software).

This kind of thing needs to be standard on sooo many IRC servers.

@charliebrownau @ryo @PhenomX6

IRC The worst part is that IRC is super easy to use, people are just really fucking stupid. Just open a client, connect to IRC server and port and do /msg nickserv REGISTER <e-mail> <password>

The hardest part is concealing my IP address (most networks block Tor).

@ryo @PhenomX6 @charliebrownau I think I’ll give it a try, but quite frankly, some of my friends would have trouble even installing an XMPP client (I wish I was kidding about that)

There must be a web front-end that I could set up though!

From my own experience, those people will only use XMPP to talk to you, and use other stuff for everyone else.

I’ve observed this phenomenon, with Mumble, my friends only used it to chat with me.

@ryo @PhenomX6 @charliebrownau

Just let the normies on all the stuff they already destroyed, us chads will be on XMPP, IRC, Mumble, BBS, Newsgroups, Mailinglists, and all the other actually good stuff.

That’s great, I like hanging out with chads and technically experienced people.

However, I also have friends in real life (and online) with whom I would like to stay in touch without using spyware apps like Discord. As I’ve posted before, I have close friends with whom I would completely lose contact without Discord. For this reason, it’d be really nice to have a convenient, privacy friendly, open-source, decentralized, Discord alternative.

@charliebrownau @PhenomX6 I agree completely, but personally, I feel completely forced into using Discord, both by IRL friends and online friends. There are a few people with whom I’d lose contact completely if I stopped using Discord. I only have two friends whom I convinced to install Mumble, and even they usually prefer to use Discord for VC (even though Mumble has lower-latency and better sound quality). Not to mention that there’s no way in hell I could get them on IRC/XMPP.

The reality I’ve had to accept over the years is that normies don’t give a fuck about any of the things you mentioned, hell, even people with significant technical knowledge don’t always care. If we want people to use non-spyware open-source solutions, we have to make them just as convenient as Discord.

I think Matrix got pretty close to this goal, while I have my issues with how bloated it is, it’s also a huge improvement from Discord.