IRC
IRC
Posted Feb 22, 2026 19:23 UTC (Sun) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: IRC by NightMonkey
Parent article: Open-source Discord alternatives
+1 for znc. And if you pair it with matterircd, you can also interact with Mattermost and Slack over IRC. It's not a huge with for Mattermost, but gating Slack through IRC give you ways to block the Slack anti-features like the stupid Slackbot.
I leave znc running on my Raspberry Pi 4 server 24/7.