Re: Freenode Administration

[Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>]

François writes:
>> # IRC alternatives / compliments
>
> On alternatives you missed Matrix[1] which is federated (like email)
> and have several clients includig weechat for text-based interface.
>
> Several people (and I am one of them) already uses Matrix clients to
> access IRC networks with bridges (which libera.chat does not already
> have but work is in progress).
>
> There is even some ongoing work ([2], [3]) on making Matrix more
> peer-to-peer but it is still completely experimental.
>
>
> [1]: https://matrix.org
> [2]: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network
> [3]: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix

## Matrix

<https://matrix.org>

* Free libre - yes
* Peer to peer - no yet, currently federated servers
** <https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network>
** <https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix>
* Non graphical client - yes
** <https://github.com/8go/matrix-commander>
** <https://github.com/saadrushd/matrixcli>
** <https://github.com/tulir/gomuks>
** <https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix>
* IRC capabilities - yes
* Emacs client - yes
** <https://github.com/alphapapa/matrix-client.el>