See https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/ for all that. Riot is the flagship Matrix client, but there are many other alternatives in various states of develop

See https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/ for all that. Riot is the flagship Matrix client, but there are many other alternatives in various states of development. For bridges that you can run on your on "homeserver" (if you indeed want to run your own server!), see https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html#application-services https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html#applica.... If you use the matrix.org homeserver, they bridge with a number of IRC networks, including freenode and OFTC. The closest thing to an official list that I've seen is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/208 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/2....