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 # Ergonomadic
 
 Ergonomadic is an IRC daemon written from scratch in Go. Pull requests and
-issues are welcome. Discuss it here or on Freenode in
-[#ergonomadic](irc://chat.freenode.net/#ergonomadic).
+issues are welcome. Discuss it here or on Freenode in [#ergonomadic][irc].
 
 ## Some Features
 
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ issues are welcome. Discuss it here or on Freenode in
 - server password (PASS command)
 - channels with most standard modes
 - IRC operators (OPER command)
-- haproxy [PROXY protocol](http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt) header for hostname setting
+- haproxy [PROXY protocol][proxy-proto] header for hostname setting
 - passwords stored in bcrypt format
 - channels that persist between restarts (+P)
 
@@ -25,14 +24,17 @@ I wanted to learn Go.
 
 ## What about SSL/TLS support?
 
-Go has a not-yet-verified-as-safe TLS 1.2 implementation. Sadly, many
-popular IRC clients will negotiate nothing newer than SSLv2. If you
-want to use SSL to protect traffic, I recommend using
-[stunnel](https://www.stunnel.org/index.html) version 4.56 with
-haproxy's
-[PROXY protocol](http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt). This
-will allow the server to get the client's original addresses for
-hostname lookups.
+Go has a not-yet-verified-as-safe TLS 1.2 implementation. Sadly, many popular
+IRC clients will negotiate nothing newer than SSLv2. If you want to use SSL to
+protect traffic, I recommend using [stunnel][stunnel] version 4.56 with
+haproxy's [PROXY protocol][proxy-proto]. This will allow the server to get the
+client's original addresses for hostname lookups.
+
+## What about federation?
+
+IRC federation solves a problem that was more likely to occur on the internet of
+1991 than today. We are exploring alternatives to federation that avoid nickname
+and channel sync issues created during netsplits.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -44,9 +46,8 @@ ergonomadic initdb -conf ergonomadic.conf
 
 ## Configuration
 
-See the example `ergonomadic.conf`. Passwords are base64-encoded
-bcrypted byte strings. You can generate them with the `genpasswd`
-subcommand.
+See the example `ergonomadic.conf`. Passwords are base64-encoded bcrypted byte
+strings. You can generate them with the `genpasswd` subcommand.
 
 ```sh
 ergonomadic genpasswd 'hunter2!'
@@ -65,3 +66,8 @@ ergonomadic run -conf ergonomadic.conf
 - [RFC 2812: IRC Client Protocol](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812)
 - [RFC 2813: IRC Server Protocol](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2813)
 - [IRC/2 Numeric List](https://www.alien.net.au/irc/irc2numerics.html)
+
+
+[proxy-proto]: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
+[irc]: irc://chat.freenode.net/#ergonomadic
+[stunnel]: https://www.stunnel.org/index.html