Last I checked Slack has many more users than IRC
IRC will still be around after Slack is long gone.
FidoNet is also still around, but...
> IRC has "lost" many times before and yet it's still around.
IRC is no more relevant than the fossils that are still underneath the ground.
> while the previous "winners" are all gone or irrelevant.
So Matrix is gone and irrelevant?
> Even if Discord is tolerable today how long before it becomes terminally enshittified?
Even if that happens I can guarantee you that they won't be going back to IRC.
Matrix is very much alive and well; we just hit 100M total addressable users on the network :)
How do you count users? I couldn't find a way to get stats from other people's homeservers when I looked into it
the optional phonehome stats in synapse. this is total mxids reported (104M or something).
A couple of years ago you'd have told me the exact same thing but with s/Discord/Slack/
IRC has "lost" many times before and yet it's still around while the previous "winners" are all gone or irrelevant. Even if Discord is tolerable today how long before it becomes terminally enshittified?