Irc, Matrix and not missing conversations

Look at irc for a moment. When using irc you join a channel.

You write things in this channel. Other people write things too.

You can join a channel and you can also leave it. Now consider

that you don't want to miss any conversation that's happening in

a particular channel. Depending on whether the chat application

is irc or Matrix, the way of doing this is different.

On irc often channels are not publicly logged. Some chat networks

even require no public logging in their policies and allow

public logging as an exception when all users of a channel

have been made aware of it. So in order not to miss any

conversation on a channel on irc many users will set up their

own bouncer and join that channel.

On Matrix on the other hand there's no need to set up a bouncer

as the Matrix server keeps logs of conversations in a channel.

When joining Matrix users have to identify. So there's no public

logging so to say. The duration for which past messages are kept

can be configured on the server too.

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