As someone who hates IRC with passion (including the necessity of maintaining a znc instance and dealing with IRC authentication and network issues from time to time) and would love to jump to a more modern solution ASAP, what is the best course of action for me now?

- Create an account with some Matrix server, and join my favorite Fedora channels from there?
- Or wait until some formal decision is reached and possibly the Fedora Matrix server is available?
- Will there be any advantage in using the Fedora server over others?
- If not, do you have any recommendation which server to register at - are there any differences between them, e.g. in stability or resposivity or features?
- Can I already join all Fedora-related channels hosted on freenode, or just some select ones?
- Are there any difficulties with the Matrix-to-IRC bridge to be aware of? For example do I still need to forward my IRC authentication somehow through Matrix? Or are modern chat features (like image editing or reactions) also supported on those bridged channels? Or anything else?

Thanks for replies.