Selfhosted

40347 readers

394 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
awesome-selfhosted software
awesome-sysadmin resources
Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz

Experiences self-hosting an IRC bouncer? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by bluelion@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

22 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've been enjoying chatting on IRC and was wondering if anyone has any relevant experience with any bouncers?

I tried setting up ZNC but could not get any clients to work with it.

I finally settled on soju with goguma as client, but since no up-to-date Docker container existed, I had to create my own Dockerfile for that.

For now, it's only available on my LAN (proxied through nginx), and am uncertain if exposing it externally is a good idea (I already have a VPN, but prefer to expose services if it's safe to do so).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

People still use it for the same reason we use email... Why move an entire community to matrix if IRC works fine? Anyone who wants to use matrix can set up a bridge, anyway. And I wouldn't consider discord a good alternative.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My point exactly. There are easier and better ways of doing this dated interaction.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you still don't understand why people use IRC then we clearly didn't make the same point, and you misunderstood mine.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone still recognizes this wisdom you seem to be all about.

Enlightening us with that wisdom would be beneficial to everyone, no?

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quoting my previous comment:

Why move an entire community to matrix if IRC works fine?

In other words, why "fix" it (and risk fragmenting the community) if it ain't broke?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because IRC doesn't "work fine".

It's a 50-year old solution to no modern problems where everything about it has been solved in better ways.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you aren't willing to give the OP the information he was requesting, why respond at all?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I very much did. Read up.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

OP: asks for advice about IRC

just_another_person: only stupid and lazy people use IRC

...

just_another_person: why doesn't anyone appreciate how helpful I am?