@meso @alex @theorytoe These are the reasons I think "the kids" don't like IRC:

Technical:

- Filesharing is clunky
- Available clients are boring and old-feeling, don't "feel" like iMessage or Discord
- Protocol is "weird" by today's standards; not JSON
- Security/moderation is too tricky
- No native voice chat
- Can't edit messages
- Account/profile management varies from server to server

Community/culture:

- Most current rooms are filled with 80 people and only 3 people ever talk
- Those 3 people are mega autistic about something, you wonder how they are real
- Bots and spam

XMPP solves all of the technical issues at the cost of making it a horrible developer experience, hence all the clients are buggy, convoluted, and half-abandoned. We need the developer ease of Nostr/IRC with the features of XMPP, but whoever makes the standards needs to understand the value of brevity and saying "no."