[_shantaram]

irc isn't dead, come join us on Libera! (and there's tons of other networks too, i just feel disingenuous inviting you to ones im not on)

[dt3ft]

Last time I checked it was just idle bots (or idle clients). Is it still this way nowadays?

[dewey]

What did you check? I'm in some channels like #postgresql or the channel of a hackerspace I'm part of and it's always active.