Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

[Matthew Hodgson <matthew matrix org>]

On 13/02/2020 14:27, Neil McGovern wrote:

> 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.

Just a heads up that there is now a lot more information about why 
Mozilla's federation is turned *on*, and why they picked Matrix, up at 
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/03/06/brace-for-impact/

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Matthew Hodgson
Matrix.org