As a result of this discussion in [email protected], there is now an IRC channel about degoogling!
/join ##degoogle on irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS). The channel name begins with a double hashtag (according to the namespace policy).
Come on down and join us through your local IRC client or the web client web.libera.chat!
It’s become so complicated. To use Libera chat IRC I need to register with a name and email now? Back then I just connected to the server, joined a channel and started chatting. Now I can’t send messages or anything. Everything’s blocked. It sucks.
If you really want privacy, you could run I2P. Here’s some notes on making an IRC server over I2P.
https://i2pd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/irc/
its always moderation . nostr is basically irc now but much better also it is filled with crypto bros . 1 thing i dont like about nostr is there will always be this probability that someone will generate same private keys