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tuwunel
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matrix-construct / tuwunel
tuwunel
Official successor to conduwuit
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3 sourcesSTstevefan1999·Oct 11, 2026
I know, but it doesn't seems to be in the RFC yet. RFC creates specs and agreements between the protocol and it makes it officially acceptable for clients to start consider respecting it.
I'm running a Matrix server using https://github.com/matrix-construct/tuwunel as an alternative to IRC, but I missed the lean-and-mean of IRC since Matrix is full on event driven delivery like XMPP/Jabber.
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