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Comment by wkat4242

12 days ago

There's lots of experts like that on Libera IRC. It's still a big hub for support of FOSS project.

So is Matrix which doesn't have the capability for this kind of checks (and is federated so you can add your own server without it).

Maybe there is an astronomy channel, maybe there isn't. The official page [1] requires longer to install the client to even know which channels exist. That's arguably worse than Reddit, which requires no software nor registration to know which communities exist.

[1] https://libera.chat/guides/findingchannels

  • What do you mean? The webchat client is linked right there in the second paragraph, doesn't require you to install anything and let's you connect and list channels as a guest without registering. It took me like 30 seconds to find out that there is indeed an astronomy channel.