X is not food or water or housing or education or energy or anything that comes close to basic human need. It is a silly little chat program no different than IRC or friendster or Myspace., and we get along fine without those. And it has little positive to to add to its users lives. This should not be a hand wringing decision.
no different from IRC
Do not insult the glorious multiplayer notepad!
Technically, Europe and North America did kinda-sorta do an IRC split at one point, where the mostly-European IRCnet split off of the subseqently-mostly-North-American EFnet, though both IRC networks are still around and as far as I’m aware can be used without problems from people on either continent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCnet
Between May and July 1996 IRCnet was formed as a European fork of EFnet, when a number of operator disagreements resulted in a group of European admins declaring their independence. The reasons for the “Great Split”[3] as it came to be called, included:
- a policy disagreement about how much power system operators should have. IRCnet formed with the basis that there should be a set of rules defining what SysOps could and could not do. This viewpoint was opposed by many of the US-based EFnet servers.
- a technical disagreement on whether the network should use timestamping (TS) or Nick Delay as a means to prevent nick collisions, according to Jarkko Oikarinen.[4]
- Vegard Engen, one of the European operators, stated[3] that the immediate cause for the “Great Split” was that a major US EFnet hub had been disconnecting irc.stealth.net without warning, and thereby breaking the link to the European servers.
EDIT: Though that said, it’s not like there’s an overall, general geographical split in IRC today, as those are today just two among a number of IRC networks, and not the largest in 2026.
The Nazi propaganda platform doesn’t add anything positive to anyone’s lives. It should be removed.
The Zionist propaganda platform, although I agree not much difference between a Nazi & Zionist these days.
No one needs any of these sites, I can’t wait for more and more people to realize what a gigantic waste of time they are, full of lies, fluff, grifters, ads, and just generally shit that doesn’t matter and I am just as guilty as anyone else, if not more, wasting so much time online over the years.
It’s really quite sad though, in the mid to late 90s I had such high hopes the internet would bring people together, knowledge would be free, walls would be broken down, etc. As usual, money and greed ruined that quickly. I don’t think I can count the things that money and greed have ruined in my lifetime, it’s just too high. Pathetic.
knowledge would be free
I don’t know about all free, but information is a lot more accessible than it was in the 1990s, and a lot of it is free or pretty inexpensive.
Used to be that when I wanted more information on something, I went to a library and checked out a reference book. Maybe put that book on request from another library to use its inter-library lending system. Maybe bought the book if I was going to use it repeatedly.
Today, I’m typically just going to hit a search engine unless I need really authoritative, detailed information.
I don’t think I can count the things that money and greed have ruined in my lifetime, it’s just too high. Pathetic.
I feel you… if money can be made, it will probably go to shit…
But then out of the ashes, something new usually comes, one way or another… sometimes. LOL.
