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Other than backwards compatibility with previous IRC clients, is there anything IRCv3 brings that something like Matrix doesn't do? Despite myself being a pretty prolific EFnet'er 15-20 years ago, most of the world has moved from IRC and I question the value of splitting resources across too many different efforts, when I think we'd be better off if everyone adopting a federated protocol like Matrix; which I believe covers pretty much all of the IRC use cases in addition to a number of others.
Matrix has a name for being a cumbersome protocol, which is partly true (try to join a room on a big server like
matrix.org, but alsokde.organdmozilla.org), but there are now lightweight servers such as Dendrite and Continuwuity.I love the idea of Matrix but gah it’s so damn slow and moderation/permissions are a nightmare.
The permission system is not more complicated than Discord's.