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It depends. There's a lot of people on/around IRC who really like it (see libera and all the other networks), and yeah there definitely are people spinning up new smaller networks. Especially with things like https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ and self-hosted https://kiwiirc.com/ , as well as really polished client experiences like irccloud, it's easier to convince people to join in.
Right now I'm working with a dev from libera on a client that aims to replicate a lot of things experience-wise from newer chat services. Hoping that with that, smaller self-contained servers can become more of a norm~ But for now, your best bets for finding activity are probably Libera and a couple of the other larger networks.
Ah! So what we have right now is a websocket API (so clients can speak IRC via websockets), and our default config basically turns the ircd into a 'bouncer' (it automatically stays online all the time, caches message history, plays it to you when you join and all that).
We're looking at some new persistence capabilities and caps to speed up connection, which should (hopefully, eventually) provide something similar to that c2s bouncer api in terms of speed: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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