@miah@hachyderm.io IRC is decentralized, I would just take that. I wouldn't mind a decentralized alternative to Discord that didn't suck. That said, IRC is not a very secure platform by itself. IP addresses are basically public so you need to use a proxy/vpn or some kind of tunneling to mask it. It doesn't collect data but the logs are there unless disabled. And to top it all, it's outdated. It's also susceptible to a lot of attacks, and securing it is not easy.

If all you need is to send text and nothing else, it's fine. Otherwise, you are going to have a hard time with it.