On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 14:25, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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. > And like I said, I am not wanting to stop people from moving to it. I am against people saying it shouldn't be done. I am just getting off the bus, and wanted to say that is a better alternative than trying to generate stop energy. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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