IRC is part of the I2Verse, it is regularly well attended and keeps participants as anonymous as they see fit.
To access IRC, you only need two things: an activated IRC tunnel in your router and an IRC client.
The better known IRC servers are Postman (USA) and Ilita (Russia). (At least that's what it looks like linguistically.) Which one you want to use is up to you. Some channels are on all IRC servers at the same time, others, especially those targeting nationalities other than the native ones, are not. The connection data for the clients are:
network: irc.postman.i2p
server: 127.0.0.1
port: 6668
network: irc.ilita.i2p
server: 127.0.0.1
port: 6669
Do not use any of the encryption offered, the connections are already secured by the I2P network. Then enter a name and that's it.
After your client has established a connection to the IRC server, you can join existing channels. Modern clients have a button to display a list of existing channels. You can join a channel using the mouse context menu. By hand, these commands are
/list (displays a list of all available channels)
/join #channelname (join a channel)
For some it is certainly important to know that there is no obligation to chat on IRC. Anyone can enter any public room without having to have a conversation. And with the exception of the specially designated IRC room users, all participants are equal.
To get out of there or to close the connection to the server - without closing the client - you will also find corresponding commands in the menu. On foot they are:
/part (leaves an IRC channel)
/quit (terminates the connection to the IRC server)
So much for this brief introduction. IRC is not rocket science and, thanks to modern clients, is no longer like the “black hole” from the early days.
Questions?
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