digitalfoxAs of last week, I have added yet another chat platform to my "bridge everything into my IRC client" workflow.
Given recent kerfuffles with Discord, I look forward to adding 15 new chat platforms to IRC by the end of 2026. 
Dragonwolf of the Shadow Pride@digitalfox I was talking to creatures about this earlieer, we're going to have chat platforms be like Linux distroes soon.
Arthfach 🐻@digitalfox I really need to figure out how to do that.
@arthfach I don't recommend it if you have a decent XMPP or Matrix setup. Both of those can bridge, and map more easily to "modern" chat platforms with inline images, video, the ability to rename channels, etc. That's the route I'd go if I had to start over.
But if you really want to (or became invested in your IRC setup early on, like I did)…
https://wiki.bitlbee.org/
See also the "other third party bridges" section at the end.
@digitalfox I do have my own XMPP platform that is quite stable; that may be REALLY useful for bridging! Thank you - never even considered that would be possible.
@arthfach Sure thing!
I forgot, it's apparently not called bridging, but instead, "XMPP Gateways" - e.g. https://codeberg.org/poezio/biboumi bridges XMPP to IRC.
Softwarewolf@digitalfox @arthfach > ability to rename channels
IRCv3 is (slowly) working on adding that: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/channel-rename
Nikon Raccoon@digitalfox do you have suggestions for irc network/channels to join?
@digitalfox I'm still on furnet, and some other small ones.
@digitalfox I also installed a mu* client and connected to my home muck for the first time in a few years.