Well, on Lemmy you don’t follow users anyway

Crucially, users also retain the ability to migrate to different servers without losing their followers, which is a stark contrast to traditional platforms, where leaving means starting over and building up a following from scratch. This is a particularly crucial feature for influencers and content creators, who were recently faced with losing millions of followers during the recent TikTok blackout.

Is this actually implemented anywhere?

Can they be disabled?

And he was right.

I was trying to think of what the impactful differences between IRC and Matrix are (it’s been a while).

“While being as open as IRC, Matrix provides a user experience which is similar to Slack or Discord to some extent. It’s modern, it’s persistent, and […] it’s actually less confusing to newcomers than an extremely simple application like Jargonaut.”

Persistancy! It’s funny how that completely slipped my mind. The expectation from a chat room app has changed a lot since I last regularly used IRC and I guess I forgot what it used to be like.