On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 14:15 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> My apologies for that misinformation. While a federated chat system is a
> network of servers for people being social,  I should not tie them in the
> same crappile as Social Networks where my logins and engagement are
> measured and sold.
>
> Open source is good, but it is still yet another distraction that I have to
> learn
> a) which tool I need to add as a screen to watch things
> b) how to shut up from pinging me with 'blah mentioned you!', etc.
> c) avoid spending hours looking at it as something to do versus work.

I mean, I'm an old fogey too, but at *some* point we do have to accept
that new things can be actively better.

I honestly can see exactly zero downsides to using a Matrix setup as
compared to using IRC, and a giant pile of upsides, starting with "I no
longer need to dedicate a small portion of my brain to remembering how
my IRC bouncer setup works and maintaining it".

If Fedora just moved to using this clearly superior system rather than
IRC, what would you still need IRC for? My answer to that is "basically
nothing", I think. Especially since GNOME seems to be moving to it too.