IRCv3 is better than Matrix or xmpp

[lil5@social.linux.pizza]

IRCv3 is better than Matrix or xmpp

Easier to host, easier to moderate & is able to run on 20year old hardware

#irc #matrix #xmpp

[pixelschubsi@troet.cafe]

@lil5 say that you never tried to host or run #XMPP without saying so.

I run a prosody XMPP server on a Raspberry Pi 1B, which is weaker in compute performance than a Pentium 3 from 1999 (but draws significantly less power).

[debacle@framapiaf.org]

@lil5

I'ld be interested to read about the IRC moderation features, that #Jabber/#XMPP does not (yet?) have! I can imagine room for approvement.

Btw. I'm the author of a simple moderation bot, #CrowdMod:

Martin / CrowdMod · GitLab

Debian Salsa Gitlab

GitLab (salsa.debian.org)

But why should an XMPP server not run on 20 yo hardware? It's pretty lightweight! Admins can decide, how much disk space they want to assign e.g. for message archiving and files.

[lil5@social.linux.pizza]

@pixelschubsi Cool!

Did you get calls working too? I’m trying out #convos with its jitsi integration which works great.

[lil5@social.linux.pizza]

I love how nobody is defending Matrix xD

[martin@social.mdosch.de]

@lil5@social.linux.pizza
The #xmpp server #prosody is pretty low on resources usage. Not sure if that claim really holds. Also hosting it is not difficult. Never hosted an IRC server though.

I use #IRC channels for e.g. #Debian but the feature set is pretty limited, compared to xmpp. I never considered really using #matrix as it felt slow and buggy in my tests.