You can create much of this experience with clients like Converse.js. In "Inverse" mode it looks like a team chat like Slack and XMPP rooms have (possibly long) channel descriptions. There are also ways to make users join default rooms, such that an XMPP-Server could organize users in "servers" and channels. Features like "stickers" are also already specified and implemented by some clients and others could be added if needed.

Matrix has "spaces" that act like Discord "servers" but it also has the problem of permanent logs that can easily be scraped.

> no change to discord will effect that.
Local-only logs would affect that.

If the "Server" is not public, it is not scraped.

I always hated how Discord keeps all messages forever. Even WhatsApp keeps the chatlogs locally on your device.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Americans are strange with their x-word abbreviations for things where everybody knows the word. Like it would make things better to say f-word instead of fuck. If a LLM cannot write about people fucking it is broken.

Small brain: Four spaces
Large brain: Tabs
Galaxy brain: Both

It looks like they don't want to censor it more, but only add another benchmark that pleases people who want to know how toxic or not it is.

There is currently no copyright on AI generated images, so they can be freely used even when training AIs on copyrighted images would be outlawed.
They probably violated the Midjourney ToS, though.

Press Windows Key plus period key and you see an emoji chooser that works on every web forum.

> IRC's UI is not great and Lacks Presence, History, Search, Emoji's, and integrated Voice chat, for example.

Not quite right.

> Presence
No. IRC has features to be notified when somebody is online. Also for projects the most important part is the userlist of the channel.

> History
That makes it good. Are you really sure that it is a good thing when Discord has your logs from 10 years ago? What I said on IRC is only on the disks of a few people who were present and archive their logs for longer than a few years.

> Search
Search for what? It's a chat

> Emoji's
Emojis are a feature of your font rendering.

> and integrated Voice chat
non-goal

I don't think Matrix can become Discord and I don't think they should try. The reasonable goals for Matrix do not match the goals for, e.g., Revolt.

Terms of Service only apply if you agreed to them. So as long as the videos are available without account, they may try using copyright or claim that crawling is resource abuse, but cannot argument with their ToS.

I miss the days when chat companies fought alternative clients instead of their users. Yeah, gaim (now pidgin) couldn't connect to ICQ or MSN from time to time. Still no user was banned and you either used other clients in the meantime (e.g. the official ones) or waited until the open source libraries implemented the protocol changes.

XMPP sucked when bandwidth was low (even between servers), but nowadays it works quite well. For fast chat there is nothing that could beat IRC, but for the "Whatsapp style" chats XMPP is quite good.