[Tepix]

In March 2023, they wrote:

> … provide an alternative solution to the wide spread XMPP messaging protocol (and to be honest — the only wide spread ‘standard’ these days).

Did they miss Matrix for some reason? The spec is at https://spec.matrix.org/latest/

[jfdjkfdhjds]

matrix is irc3 (guess 4 now). different tradeoffs.

[paradox460]

Hardly. Irc has no federation capability

[Dalewyn]

I would argue that is a feature.

The beauty of IRC is its brutally spartan simplicity.

[jfdjkfdhjds]

if you think federations is part of the use case you are missing the entire point of the discussion

[notpushkin]

What do you mean exactly?