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Slack (it's not exactly IRC, but move on with the times)
> but move on with the times

IRC is alive and kicking. It's also the better option over the likes of Discord, Slack, and other spyware masquerading as chat apps.

I've used irssi (https://irssi.org) for years.

Have a session running on a shell host under tmux. Works perfectly for me on a desktop and a mobile ssh client.

I'm using thelounge (https://thelounge.chat/).

It runs in a container, and I can keep a tab open on my phone, my work laptop and my private laptop without much hassle.

I use a IRC client that I wrote many years ago, in PHP (which isn't the programming language I would use if I were to redo it today), on Windows, with PuTTY as the terminal emulator; I still use the same program, but now on Linux, with xterm as the terminal emulator.
I go through several "suckless" type IRC clients - currently my own patched version of: https://c9x.me/irc/ - which is nice and simple.