I found myself loving what this guy writes about IRC, and I think a lot of his words will go straight to the heart of specially the older nerds here on Lemmy.
Hope you enjoy.
Still use IRC but it gets really clunky / complicated when you want to have push notifications / persistent history etc… You end up setting up something like ZNC (IRC Bouncer) to act as an always online server and then hooking clients to it persist your online status.
It works out of the box and completely painlessly with The Lounge.
It web based so some might not be a fan, but for mobile use it’s pretty great. Just install as PWA on Android or iOS and it’s pretty seamless.
It looks nice. But I assume it’s sending messages in clear text? Im using Element a bit (https://element.io/) but it doesn’t feel as fun as Lemmy. I guess it can be great for general chatting in real time though.
