@miah yes I'm currently running Matrix for that but...

@miah yes I'm currently running Matrix for that but it often is overcomplicated. I wish there'd be something as simple and as "small" as IRC but with the power of e2ee per default

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Miah Johnson

@brayd Check out SILC then, it _might_ meet your goals. I think development around it is pretty stagnant though. Its as easy to run as any IRCd and the clients are also very simple. I can't speak to "how good" the encryption bits are though.

20 June at 14:04 | Open on hachyderm.io

Andreas

@miah @brayd Never used silc myself but there’s also OTR.

Which I also did not use because my IRC conversations are basically public.

e2e exists with the caveat that the excusing options do not hide the complexity unlike the proprietary solutions.

20 June at 17:54 | Open on mastodon.bawue.social

Tomáš Janoušek

@brayd @miah most IRC clients can do OTR (off-the-record, a protocol for e2ee) and if not then there's usually an external plugin/extension that can

21 June at 8:11 | Open on genserver.social

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