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I think Libera is (and only intends to be) restricted to catering to the pre-existing Freenode community; their sights are not particularly set on expanding/com

I think Libera is (and only intends to be) restricted to catering to the pre-existing Freenode community; their sights are not particularly set on expanding/competing with newer platforms any more than the Freenode community's were. They just cater to people who like & want to stick to IRC, for whatever variety of reasons. I don't see any "growth" (nor "shrinkage") happening here beyond migration of users from Freenode. Discord is not open-source, so I don't see how it's relevant; it's "communities" are primarily gamers & streamers. While there are some open-source communities based on Discord, the same goes for other closed-source platforms such as Slack & Telegram, and I'm sure the number of software development communities on Slack is (sadly) much larger than on Discord. Of actual open-source options: Gitter, Discourse, Rocket, Mattermost, etc. - Matrix would seem to be competing relatively well.

exciteabletom 5y ago
> closed-source platforms such as Slack & Telegram I'm pretty sure Telegram is open-source (at least the client) https://github.com/telegramdesktop https://github.com/telegramdesktop
- lucideer 5y ago
  The server is closed-source, which is all that matters for centralised platforms. An open-source client would be relevant for something P2P like SSB/Manyverse*, but for all other tech the sourcecode of the server will be your primary concern. * And even with something like Manyverse, the sourcecode of things commonly used as "de facto servers", like SSB "pubs", ends up still being extremely relevant in practice just because of the UX of using the platform.
M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Of actual open-source options: Gitter Gitter was bought by Element, it's effectively a Matrix client now.
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