2026-10-15 15:53 UTC
On the other side of that coin, the psychological safety part of it, let me tell you: I'm the guy who killed IRC at Mozilla. I'm proud of it.
One of the reasons I'm proud of it is the mobile IRC bouncers that didn't let people delete old DMs so I got to have conversations with colleagues where they showed me pages and pages and pages of vicious scrollback harassment that they had to endure for their jobs, sitting in their phones forever.
The feature request was "I just want this to stop."
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca 2026-10-15 16:02
The move to Matrix was partly driven by their open source commitments - hi, @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org , hey yo, love you all - but they mostly won on the strength of two things. First that their accessibility posture was not just unrivalled in terms of FOSS forums but that their team jumped at the chance to work with us improve it. But 2nd: the moderation tools are unmatched. Nothing else comes close. Once you have tools and process in place to ablate harassment, nobody willingly goes back to not having that.