You can do e2e encryption over IRC iirc. SASL (or something newer at this point for all I know.) Can’t really recommend it when defederated matrix servers exist as a modern alternative.
Buuuut you can run no-log encrypted IRC over TOR without hitting an exit node last time I checked, which is pretty comfy. Gotta trust your admins tho. Still super suboptimal compared to defed matrix using a non-default ident server.
You can do e2e encryption over IRC iirc. SASL (or something newer at this point for all I know.) Can’t really recommend it when defederated matrix servers exist as a modern alternative.
Buuuut you can run no-log encrypted IRC over TOR without hitting an exit node last time I checked, which is pretty comfy. Gotta trust your admins tho. Still super suboptimal compared to defed matrix using a non-default ident server.