Matrix is not trying to split any community. If it were, it wouldn't have bridges to IRC, Slack, or any other chat system. I'd like to see Freenode integrate a

Matrix is not trying to split any community. If it were, it wouldn't have bridges to IRC, Slack, or any other chat system. I'd like to see Freenode integrate a seamless bouncer. I suspect I won't in the next few years. Right now, Matrix provides one. Fancy that. (Also, I'm chatting across four different Matrix servers, with people in those rooms from many more, and have only ever had to manually connect to one server (my own) and have only had to create one account. IRC isn't working on fixing that.)