I personally use libera.chat because it’s the most active IRC server out there. is there any other active servers? I found this website to search for different IRC servers https://netsplit.de/networks/

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        Think of IRC as a spiritual parent to discord. The big advantage for discord comes from media - embedding images easily on the server, reaction, voice chat and screen sharing.

        It does make one wonder what would have happened if IRC had implemented some of that functionality back in say the 90s/00s.

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        Discord also retains chat history. When you join a channel on IRC, you don’t see any of the previous chat history.

        The great thing about IRC is that it’s not owned by a corporation. If you’re interested in a modern open standard that has the same features as Discord, check out Matrix