[rvz]

> IRC has "lost" many times before and yet it's still around.

IRC is no more relevant than the fossils that are still underneath the ground.

> while the previous "winners" are all gone or irrelevant.

So Matrix is gone and irrelevant?

> Even if Discord is tolerable today how long before it becomes terminally enshittified?

Even if that happens I can guarantee you that they won't be going back to IRC.

[Arathorn]

Matrix is very much alive and well; we just hit 100M total addressable users on the network :)

[progval]

How do you count users? I couldn't find a way to get stats from other people's homeservers when I looked into it

[Arathorn]

the optional phonehome stats in synapse. this is total mxids reported (104M or something).

[progval]

Does matrix.org publish these stats somewhere?