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> This goes beyond Slack or Discord or chat-app-of-the-month.

I can probably name up to 10 chat-networks and products which is existed in the 90s. None remain.

IRC does though. Exactly because it wasn’t a product, but instead a protocol specification.

Whatever rationale Mozilla has for this, it’s going to be proven short sighted.

It depends. If they choose something open like Matrix or XMPP, it could work well in the long-term.

The blog post says "We are evaluating products, not protocols".

There are no XMPP frontends that can compete with the "shininess" of the modern, proprietary systems like Slack so that's out already.

As for Matrix/Riot ... maybe, but I don't think it's likely that they'll go with that.

I hope they're willing to consider https://www.modular.im/ then, which would be based off Matrix

I like how they came right out and rejected open systems out of hand, hats off mozilla.