[oddly]

Maybe you know already, but you can use an IRC relay to act as pseudo client, connect to that and then read back on messages. You’ll have to find a place to host it though. For example, “The Lounge”.

Edit: typo

[warrenm]

Yeah, you can ... but that's a bolt-on/additional service that, quite frankly, IRC ought to Just Do™ at this point

It's 2022, not 1988 :)