There's a European subsidiary of SDF as well: https://sdfeu.org/ https://sdfeu.org/ . So the latency is much better than accessing US servers. I've been using

There's a European subsidiary of SDF as well: https://sdfeu.org/ https://sdfeu.org/ . So the latency is much better than accessing US servers. I've been using this for IRC and it works satisfactorily.