| 19 May 2021 |
 samueldr | as grahamc (he/him) said, it's federated, so the "name" of things can be on any server and still collaborate | 18:21:49 |
 ElvishJerricco | But like, by communicating with this room, is my computer connected to matrix.org or nixos.org? | 18:22:02 |
| samueldr | matrix.org | 18:22:08 |
 grahamc (he/him) | and then the servers chat in the background? | 18:22:19 |
| samueldr | as I understand it, we have the names "parked" at nixos.org, for identity reasons, mainly | 18:22:23 |
| ElvishJerricco | I have no idea what that means :P | 18:22:49 |
| samueldr | but all the magic happens in the pixie dusts^W^W federated protocol | 18:22:56 |
 andi- | Just like DNS ;) | 18:22:59 |
| andi- | It points towards the server serving the contents (it is more complex) | 18:23:12 |
| samueldr | it's an entirely different concept than what IRC used where a client was connected to and interacted with a specific server only | 18:23:35 |
|  cole-h joined the room. | 18:23:38 |
| cole-h | OK, I'm back :) | 18:24:06 |
| samueldr | wow! | 18:24:12 |
| samueldr | even with the right nick colour! | 18:24:16 |
| andi- | lol | 18:24:24 |
| andi- | I made that argument earlier.. I got so used to the colors. | 18:24:34 |
| samueldr | (same hue as on my irc client for cole-h coincidentally) | 18:24:38 |
|  daniele joined the room. | 18:24:38 |
 Alyssa Ross | I think there might actually be a standard for nick colours? | 18:24:55 |
| grahamc (he/him) | yes, that is a problem for me also. many people I know by the color and shape of their handle | 18:24:59 |
| Alyssa Ross | there definitely is on XMPP, and I could see it having been adopted outside | 18:25:04 |
| samueldr | not a standard, but common reused code | 18:25:09 |
| Alyssa Ross | samueldr: you're the same colour too | 18:25:10 |
| samueldr | but here it'd be a coincidence since as cole-h showed, the nick is not important | 18:25:30 |
| samueldr | went from lime to purple! | 18:25:40 |
 Valodim | nick colors and generated user images aren't even consistent between platforms in element, sadly :\ | 18:25:51 |
| ElvishJerricco | Is it worth trying to use the irc bridge? Or should I continue using matrix and irc separately? | 18:26:00 |
| cole-h set a profile picture. | 18:26:04 |
| andi- | There isn't an IRC bridge for this channel. | 18:26:29 |
 Sumner Evans | In reply to @Valodim:stratum0.org
nick colors and generated user images aren't even consistent between platforms in element, sadly :\ I feel like it's also sometimes inconsistent within a single element client... | 18:26:31 |
