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		palata on July 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord? IRC is very lightweight. Matrix feels rather at the other end of the spectrum. The IRC protocol is very simple. Matrix feels very complicated.

1oooqooq on July 16, 2024 [–]

real-life IRC is also extremely complicated. But you can use it incrementally.

e.g. no identity, no dcc, no figuring out the individual-and-very-particular nicksrv on each instance, etc.

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