On Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:17:15 AM MST Neal Gompa wrote: > The move to having our own Matrix server is being driven by Fedora > subcommunities already wanting to move primacy from IRC to Matrix. > Many of our adjunct upstreams have done so (Mozilla, KDE, etc.) or are > in the process of doing so (GNOME, openSUSE, etc.). > > The intent isn't to drop IRC as a gateway to these communities, and > indeed the Freenode IRC channels would remain bridged to the Fedora > Matrix server. > > To be blunt, we're struggling to get new folks to come talk to us on > IRC. Has this been documented anywhere? If so, we can likely review these issues, and see what would need to be done to solve this problem, if there is one. > Our largest user community is on Discord today, which eclipses > *everything* else by a wide margin. It's worth questioning whether those folks are actually Fedora uses, or people who are just a bit interested in Fedora. Given that the use of proprietary software, where a superior Free alternative exists, is against the Four Foundations, it's questionable that they'd be Discord users. > Next up is Telegram, which we have > been using somewhat for years through influence by the Russian Fedora > community who brought it to us in the first place. Neither of these > platforms are FOSS, and we want to provide a rich real-time > communications platform that is FOSS and open in many of the same ways > that IRC is. Matrix is open, federated, and gaining share in the > marketplace, making it a solid replacement for IRC. And unlike > alternatives, maintaining links to historical IRC channels with Matrix > rooms is easy and straightforward. > > We want to be approachable, and we want to be appealing. Right now, > our usage of IRC hurts us. If Matrix bridges so well with IRC, and many upstream communities are using it already, surely they could just join our channels through their bridges? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
