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Why do you use IRC? (lemmy.kevitprojects.com)

submitted 1 year ago by randomguy2323@lemmy.kevitprojects.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am very new into this chat applications and read about IRC and Matrix. Matrix seems its more new and modern. So I just wonder what's the reason you are still using IRC?

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[–] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've made several friends on IRC and gotten acquainted with a lot of people with whom I want to remain in contact. There's no point in moving to another platform, especially since, as u/luap@apollo.town pointed out, it "just works" and there's a client for it on every platform you can think of. I have my own IRC bouncer (ZNC) set up on a server of mine. I have it tailored to my preferences, set it up to log all the conversations I care about across multiple servers, and I can connect to it from any device I own now or might own in the future - same exact experience on all of them.