On 2022-07-19 21:01 +0200, Bartosz Fenski wrote: > Hey folks. > > Anyone interested in switching to some more modern channels of > communication? > > I'm tired of keeping VPS just to have IRC client and to be honest I think > modern solutions like Telegram are simply easier and much more practical > nowadays. Matrix please. It's free software all the way through. We can run our own server. Not-mobile-phones are 1st class clients. I'm increasingly using it to replace IRC (with bridges if appropriate). I'd be happy to see debian move channels from IRC to Matrix. I'm not happy about moving them to Telegram or Signal, which are obviously a great improvement on Whatsapp but still only somewhat-free. Telegram has non-free back-end. Signal is presumably OK if you run your own back-end, but you try to use the centralised one then you can't build your own client (or at least it's made extremely difficult). Signal requires an active mobile phone number to use (not sure if telegram is the same). I'm fine with IRC too. It's not broken, but unless you have your own permanent IRC client instance somewhere it's not great. Having the store and-forward done by someone else (unless you want to still do it yourself) is nice. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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