> If you think running a Matrix server is difficult, you are probably not the intended audience: running an IRC server, an email server, or some other server, i

> If you think running a Matrix server is difficult, you are probably not the intended audience: running an IRC server, an email server, or some other server, is mostly similarly difficult. Running an IRC server is absolutely not as difficult as running a Matrix server. There is no state, so you can literally build a tiny Docker image with the config baked in, run it on a VM with the specs of a cheap computer from the 1990s, and then forget about it for years. If it gets hacked (which I think isn't super likely as it's a small codebase that's been out there for decades), you build a new image with a more recent version of ircd.