We’re the tilde.fun collective, a small group of admins providing services for the public. Everyone can register an SSH account (currently with a mail to the admins, we also have a currently unused ssh registration script) and we provide the following services:
- code.tilde.fun – code hosting (gitea)
- chat.tilde.fun – [matrix] server
- wiki.tilde.fun – wiki mainly focused on sysadmin, development and Free software
Why IRC instead of Matrix? You’d need a bouncer to get messages when you’re not connected, you can’t really use rich text, federation is annoying and we already host Matrix.
yeah imo matrix is better in most ways except for being lightweight, though that is also being worked on. irc has a place but for normal use I think matrix is better than irc.