Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

[Neil McGovern <neil gnome org>]

On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 20:21 +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> > My concern would be the "federal" nature of matrix where people
> > don't need a
> > gnome.org specific chat account to join a room. Whilst there are a
> > lot of
> > arguments for this I'm increasingly convinced it's an anti-feature
> > especially
> > if we want to enforce CoC (which, of course, we do)
>
>  
> That was a concern for Mozilla too. I don’t know the details, but
> they have a solution for that it seems. See e.g. the Community safety
> section in the [annoucement](
> https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-the-decision/50620
> ).

The solution they're using is federation turned off.

Neil
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Neil McGovern
Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation