How complicated is a federated messenger? Because it feels like matrix is the only one but there's always an issue
Man, that's depressing, thanks for sharing, that was well worth the read
no mention of tox chat, eh? Open source, p2p private chat, what's not to like?
I like the concept of delta.chat the most. Anyone here use it? Any reason why it hasn't caught on?
Could it support technical FOSS channels with thousands of participants, like what IRC was awesome for and Matrix seems to be pretty ok at?
Deltachat works ok for 1:1 chats and small groups. It is totally unsuitable for large public channels as it doesn't really have a concept of group chats and just pretends so by (in email parlance) adds every one in 'CC'. This only works ok for small private groups.
IRC just needs to get it's shit together and start adopting IRCv3 features on the larger servers. The problem is really only that networks like libera.chat run a feature set that is at least 15 years behind what IRC can actually do.
I never heard of ircv3 before. TIL. But, some parts of it don't seem irc-like, and sacrifice the aspects that have made me stay on irc all this time. Hmm. I'll look at it more later.
Ah, too bad. That was perhaps too much to ask.
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