General Discussion • Re: Pale Moon's PR Problem

But I think that to switch to something else, even if its something more decentralized/niche like Matrix or XMPP, it removes us from a unique position; PM resources are maintained and available on PM's very own infrastructure. It serves at least two advantages from my perspective:

• We are not beholden to any third-party platform.
• It makes things easier for users to access said resources (Documentation, addons, source code, etc. etc.) since they are accessible from one location.
• It makes Pale Moon appear more polished/professional/legitimate.
• It shows that Pale Moon takes digital privacy seriously.

Pale Moon used to keep an official IRC channel on Freenode (I think), with Tobin moderating. This went about as well as one would expect, and was shut down several years ago. Building on what you have said, instant messaging with any protocol or host suffers from its own kind of obscurity. Countless creative affairs are locked behind Discord guilds (‘servers’), where they cannot be found by search engines, are tedious to mirror and preserve and require an account with that site even to read.