TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP . Discussion about decentralized messaging solutions brought this up, for when paranoia (of which I have a healthy dose) dissuade you from Telegram or Signal. I once knew it as Jabber, but in one form or another the solution has been around since 2010. I'm still tired from getting all my contacts to move to Telegram from SMS (evil by circumstance) and WhatsApp (evil by FB control), though. And, personally, I'm still intrigued by #DeltaChat as a means of reducing the buy-in cost. Or I can just stay where I am on Telegram. 🤷
@worldsendless I thought I felt more like Matrix being an IRC-alternative...
@trinsec I mean, that's basically what Slack is, too, right?
@worldsendless Sorta I guess, I dunno. I base my experience off Discord here, since I've read that Slack and Discord are very similar in features. Never used Slack, since I am not in a corporate environment using it.
I still felt a difference. When I used Discord I never thought 'wow, it's like IRC', when I used Matrix I did think 'wow, reminds me of IRC!'
@trinsec I haven't actually tried Matrix beyond a log-in. It is designed as a Slack alternative, right? Being part of Fediverse stuff it is open source, but does it follow any established broader-community standards such as SMTP protocols, etc? I currently helped my workplace change to self-hosted Zulip instead of Slack, which is basically a really slick veneer over email functionality (in fact, email is my major way of interacting with Zulip). So Matrix doesn't seem like it has a place other than replacing Slack?