Anyone who can use a web browser can use IRC. E.g. https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat:+6697#irc https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat:+66

Anyone who can use a web browser can use IRC. E.g. https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat:+6697#irc https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat:+6697#irc https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#irc https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#irc There are also mobile apps with better persistence and even simpler interfaces. IRC will never take over the world because: * The protocol is missing some minor but important UX-enhancing features. This is fixable, but there's nothing valuable enough about the existing userbase for a capitalized entity to bother working with the entrenched groups. And non-capitalized entities move relatively slowly. * There is no profit in it -- the corps who want to own messaging want to own messaging. This is a great idea for them, but a terrible idea for users. * IRC networks don't want Eternal September to happen to them. Not that anyone is beating down their door.