BitlBee
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 1, 2025first mention
Sep 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It worked way better than you would expect”
“Merge this with the public servers of https://bitlbee.org”
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“allowing you to use any IRC client (even the ones without TLS for DOS and Win9X) to connect to modern networks”
“anything CLI shines such as SIC + Bitlbee to talk with chat platforms”
“Try free Biltbee servers over IRC too”
Caveats and dissent
“I think Bitlbee itself listened on 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost”
Threads where it came up
- The 49MB Web Page 2 mentions
- Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC 1 mention
- Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source 1 mention
- The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore 1 mention
- The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility 1 mention
- US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification 1 mention
Also written as Bitlbee, bitlbee. Data: bitlbee.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“It worked way better than you would expect”
“Merge this with the public servers of https://bitlbee.org”
“allowing you to use any IRC client (even the ones without TLS for DOS and Win9X) to connect to modern networks”
“anything CLI shines such as SIC + Bitlbee to talk with chat platforms”
“Try free Biltbee servers over IRC too”
“will allow upon connecting to a registered IRC account to several protocols in the server”
“you can connect most modern protocols such as Jabber/Mastodon/Discord”
Thank you for very interesting post) >I used the text web (https://text.npr.org and the like) thru Lyx maybe you mean Linx or Links insted Lyx?
“Bitlbee saved (and still saves) my ass with tons of the protocols available via IRC”
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty/-/tree/main/src/matrix?ref_type=heads might be able to help you?
“I think Bitlbee itself listened on 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost”
iamb is pretty good and not abandonware, fwiw: https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb