@jwildeboer If IRC solved its authn issues & didn’t put the responsibility for channel history on the client requiring a bouncer, I’d be less apprehensive about this
but as someone who used to use it a lot ~ ‘94-2010: irc as it was put up a very high barrier to entry & its culture rewarded the very online
I know there have been attempts to address these concerns but until people care about them enough to drag irc ALL OF IRC into the 2000s, I think it’s a hard case to make