User talk:JustAnotherArchivist/hackint vs EFnet

Disagreement/opinion

• EFnet
  • unstable

ok, if you care

• • ridiculous channel, nick, and topic length limits

read the RFCs

• • low channel join limits

ok

• • varying degrees of IPv6 and TLS support depending on the server; no valid TLS certificates anywhere

do you really like Let's Encrypt monopoly? Things used to work without TLS earlier and no one cared. The same for IPv6

• • no services

they explain why they don't want services.

• • broken web chat

IRC is not web, it is another protocol. Also read the RFCs about the message length.

• • Tor connections generally disallowed/banned

ok

• • policy varying per server (e.g. no bots allowed on some servers)

better this than heavy centralization

• • no IRCv3 support, and unlikely to ever be added

it is IRC, or Discord, or Matrix or Slack. Some people just want to enforce their opinion on "modern" things.

• Hackint (things not mentioned earlier)
  • Tor connections welcome

no, they demand their PoW stuff or there is no way to use the services

• • accessibility (XMPP etc., though that's apparently not working properly at the moment)

IRC is IRC. Once again.

• • permissive policy (anything legal per German and Dutch laws is allowed)

it doesn't depend on the law, some smaller networks rarely ban people

• • backed by like-minded people (Chaos Computer Club)

it would still be better if it was ran by a small group of friends, preferably accepting externally linked servers