to be honest, my thoughts on IRC are too long to write about in microblogging.

i think the whole concept of an "IRC network" is obsolete.

Matrix's "spaces" are kind of an acknowledgement of that reality: Discord's "servers" are the jurisdictional boundary that people actually see.

at the same time, Matrix invested heavily in that complicated federation protocol which makes doing things like "i want to defederate matrix.kiwifarms.cc" difficult to accomplish.

to "save IRC," i think that IRC pretty much needs to be thrown away. so many assumptions made by its model are destroyed by things like CGNAT.

what we need is something modern which can provide a UX similar to Discord, while providing nomadic identity.