irc.syn.rip

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irc.syn.rip runs on a fork of ngIRCd which aims to improve privacy. Some notable features are:

1. No network channel list, or WHOIS channel list. Network channel list might be made opt-in in the future.
2. No IPs or unique hostnames or irrelevant information leaked or shown in WHOIS and network messages.
3. No services like, NickServ, ChanServ, ETC.
4. No channel operators. Actually, all channels are modeless.
5. No message penalty, Pumping is Permitted. (Oh Yeah.)

Q&A

"How are channels moderated if there are no operators or services?"

They are not meant to be. To elaborate, privileges usually get used as a weapon against other users. Instead of banning people who hurt your feelings, or crying about "spammers", you can learn to deal with people you dont like, or if you insist on blocking out another user, try using a client-side ignore / filter rule.

"If i cant register my nickname, what is stopping someone from stealing it?"

First, persistent identities should be discouraged, generally they do more harm than good. And even with NickServ authentication for example, in some (albeit rare) cases a message can be spoofed and sent from your nick, even if its registered, so its not fool proof. As stated before, its considered better to keep track of cryptographic materials for relevant users.

"X channel is being flooded, can you stop it?"

No. If privileged action can be taken against one user it can be taken against any other user, which is something that we want to avoid. Refer to the first question.

CLIENTS

If you're new to IRC and dont know which client to get, try WeeChat or Irssi. You can probably grab both from your pm. WeeChat Irssi

We also run a biboumi bridge so you can use your XMPP client to join IRC channels. See the quick start section in the biboumi docs for more info. You should use irc.syn.rip as the hostname in the JID. Example; +test%[email protected]

Abandoned biboumi. Please learn how to use an IRC client.