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IRC is far from dead. My relatively unknown oss work has a channel on libera which is seeing ~100 message per month Also Slack made the same move a couple year
by mickael-kerjean 3y ago
IRC is far from dead. My relatively unknown oss work has a channel on libera which is seeing ~100 message per month
Also Slack made the same move a couple years ago, first trying to appeal to IRC users at the beginning and then shut it all off when they had everyone else
- tazjin 3y agoI wouldn't be surprised if by the time Matrix is cold as ice, IRC will still see activity. Sufficiently simple protocols have some aura of immortality to them, and Matrix is the opposite of that.
- jeltz 3y agoAs is IRC. IRC is only a simple protocol in an ideal world which no longer exists.
- tazjin 3y agoWhat do you think is not simple about IRC nowadays?
- dotnet00 3y agoObligatory relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1782/ https://xkcd.com/1782/
- dngray 3y agoI think the main benefit of Matrix over IRC, is proper E2EE and multi device support, something that simply isn't possible for IRC clients.
- dotnet00 3y agoAgreed, my friend group hosts a private Matrix server specifically for the E2EE (with encrypted history) chatrooms. Makes us all way more comfortable sharing or discussing anything involving PII because we aren't having to trust Discord's systems and employees.