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by nine_k 206 days ago
If IRC suffices for your purposes, then Matrix, with its encryption and all, is apparently overkill.

If I were to upgrade an IRC-based community to something newer and richer, I'd go with Jabber, well-known, well-established, with a ton of various clients and several servers. Yes, it's not ideal, but it's still a massive upgrade compared to IRC, if your server supports a good list XEPs and your community members agree to use non-esoteric clients that also support them.
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ErroneousBosh 206 days ago
> If IRC suffices for your purposes, then Matrix, with its encryption and all, is apparently overkill.

IRC has encryption too. You run it over TLS.

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immibis 206 days ago
For E2EE there is the very old unofficial and only-partially-secure extension of using Blowfish with a static key.
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ErroneousBosh 206 days ago
I guess it's not end-to-end, it's decrypted on the server.

Presumably if you want to send an encrypted message from one literal endpoint to another, you'd use some other technology. I'm prepared to bet there are enough people doing just that, too.

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immibis 206 days ago
The extension I just mentioned is E2EE.
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