You can do e2e encryption over IRC iirc. SASL (or something newer at this point for all I know.) Can’t really recommend it when defederated matrix servers exist as a modern alternative.
Buuuut you can run no-log encrypted IRC over TOR without hitting an exit node last time I checked, which is pretty comfy. Gotta trust your admins tho. Still super suboptimal compared to defed matrix using a non-default ident server.
Yes, absolutely. Certainly not as popular as it once was, but it’s still around and used. Libera is probably the biggest network (split from Freenode following some drama a few years ago), but some of the classics like EFNet are still around too.
is IRC still a thing? This just makes me miss that, especially seeing the 95/98 UI
Yeah, I’m pretty sure IRC hasn’t gone anywhere. I have no idea if it has kept up with modern security practices or not, though.
You can do e2e encryption over IRC iirc. SASL (or something newer at this point for all I know.) Can’t really recommend it when defederated matrix servers exist as a modern alternative.
Buuuut you can run no-log encrypted IRC over TOR without hitting an exit node last time I checked, which is pretty comfy. Gotta trust your admins tho. Still super suboptimal compared to defed matrix using a non-default ident server.
Yes, absolutely. Certainly not as popular as it once was, but it’s still around and used. Libera is probably the biggest network (split from Freenode following some drama a few years ago), but some of the classics like EFNet are still around too.