I’ve found the IRCs hosted by tilde servers to be quite good. See https://tilde.chat/ https://tilde.chat/ and https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/. I

I’ve found the IRCs hosted by tilde servers to be quite good. See https://tilde.chat/ https://tilde.chat/ and https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/. I’m a member of https://ctrl-c.club https://ctrl-c.club (although I haven’t been active for several years).