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As far as I'm concerned after at least 23 years #liberachat might as well be IRC itself. At least then they could innovate and diverge from the constraints of the origin protocol and modernize.

Like for example the commands, help and other barriers are pretty strong, not ideal for new users. Command schema like "/msg nickserve register xyz" is not aligned with current simpler technologies.

I've stopped going there, matrix has its own problems but the barrier to entry "gate" is more in line with Average Joe type users. And it does pictures, video and voice.

Still compared to Discord there are some convienience nuances and the over promotion of a single server.

All in all, it would have been great to see a new text based IRC style chat take its place with less intellectual gates. But it is what it is, and the old people like me don't want to learn new things, its doomed to not grow but has tradeoffs.

I hope to see innovation someday, I am thankful to rust for so much innovation in coreutils and TUI.