Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> writes: > One thing I do find frustrating these days is the fracturing of > communications across so many different solutions. Makes me really miss > newsgroups! It seems like almost every project I'm interested in these > days is using a different solution for IM. (one reason I stopped using > IRC was because most of the projects I was interested in stopped using > it or the majority of interesting discussions moved to some other platform).
There are also bridges from * to IRC. See https://web.archive.org/web/20220607072519/https://200ok.ch/posts/2019-11-01_irc_and_emacs_all_the_things.html https://wiki.bitlbee.org/ > To avoid a proliferation of IM apps, I get the impression you could use > Matrix and get access to many different messaging environments. Is this > correct and is the Emacs matrix client mature/stable? Emacs matrix client is ement.el developed by @alphapapa. It has been recently released on GNU ELPA. So, you can see it as stable enough. However, Matrix protocol itself is not yet stable. Something to keep in mind. -- Ihor Radchenko, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/. Support Org development at https://liberapay.com/org-mode, or support my work at https://liberapay.com/yantar92