Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
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Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
#2Huh?
Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC?
Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.
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#4Matrix has a long way to go to compete with IRC and XMPP... Godspeed.
Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
#5Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.
Wizards use IRC, and their apprentices use discord.
Some of the most deeply technical people in the world use IRC.
Being able to talk to them is a superpower.
Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
#6Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.
10-15k Users were using it, its quite a big thing. You can see the user count drop around 4th August: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
#7Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.
Wizards use IRC, and their apprentices use discord. Some of the most deeply technical people in the world use IRC. Being able to talk to them is a superpower.
IRC's biggest weakness is the protocol didn't transition cleanly to a mobile world.
But apart from that, it's still as good as it always was.
Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
#8Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.
Wizards use IRC, and their apprentices use discord. Some of the most deeply technical people in the world use IRC. Being able to talk to them is a superpower.
puts on wizard hat
Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
#9I've been using heisenbridge[0] to do my Matrix to IRC bridging and I like it. Not a broader solution to the problem since most people don't want to run their own services, but it works well for me and is no different to a bouncer for IRC servers, noone knows it's actually Matrix on the other side.
Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
#10Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.
I pretty much only used Matrix as a glorified IRC bouncer that worked across my devices. When the libera.chat bridges went away, I just stopped using Matrix altogether.
Yeah, I am sure it is possible to set up my own appservice, but ERC has been convenient enough for my use case.