Mostly for tech communities but yes. Libera.Chat seems to be the go-to network.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months agomIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.
0x0@programming.dev 4 months ago
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 months ago
As someone who has most of her socialization on IRC now… Eww, mIRC is proprietary and for Windows. Maybe it’s just me having learned about IRC only a couple years ago and thus not having a sentimental attachment, but why use it if you have open-source ones like Hexchat, Irssi or Weechat?
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I used mIRC for years, but as the days have marched on, XChat replaced it, and then irssi, and finally weechat on SSH.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For me, mIRC had a clunky but useful script editor included that 14 year old me spent countless hours creating little chatbots with