IRC and Matrix don't count users the same way. With Matrix, if you just create an account, join a room, and completely forget about it, you're still counted. T

IRC and Matrix don't count users the same way. With Matrix, if you just create an account, join a room, and completely forget about it, you're still counted. There must be a bunch of Matrix channels that count me at least three times because of the different accounts/homeservers I used when trying to make something work. Meanwhile on IRC you (or someone else) needs to have a client running somewhere to be counted.