That is always a concern, yes. You can block users, and entire instances, that spam.

clearly.

Or matrix

A lot of the design reads like almost but not quite ActivityPub.

To be fair, if i recall correctly, some of the folks who started up matrix protocol (and associated project) came from/and loved the IRC world (e.g. the rooms concept, etc.)...so it stands to reason that matrix and irc have at least some *conceptual* similarities, and hence other stuff that spins off from or leverages IRC may also appear similar to matrix.

Cool. I did something like that so agents and people could communicate with a Jira instance using Websocket-aware IRC and a browser-based client based on superchat.

Put the issue context in a #channel and invite external parties/entities, bring the results back to the work.

I have tested it but the complexity didn't justify the results in my experiment. I couldn't get it accepted into Atlassian Marketplace, either.

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You're in luck: Some people already thought of this, submitted an RFC to the IETF and implemented it. It goes by the name XMPP.

Many earth rotations ago, I was IMing through an mIRC bot because I refused to install MSN. This kind of reminds me of that too.