Hello,
I have hosted my own XMPP account and it’s really fun, hosting an XMPP server is way easier than hosting an XMPP server which is not a good experience. I also find a lot of public servers of my interest, I guess I will be leaving IRC in favour of XMPP server :)
My guess is OP meant “easier than hosting an IRC server”.
I thought IRC would be quite simple
This made me think of Matrix. I don’t want to hate on it, it’s just annoyingly slow, even though users seem to like it for some reason.
Read the whole thing. OP says.
I read the whole thing, but my brain decided it should replace IRC with XMPP while reading, so it made less sense. xD
Ohh, most probably the OP actually means they’re hosting a XMPP server after all. Cool !