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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ You can find a [list of Wayland applications on the sway wiki](https://github.co
 
 ## IRC channel
 
-dwl's IRC channel is #dwl on irc.freenode.net.
+dwl's IRC channel is #dwl on irc.libera.chat.
 
 ## Acknowledgements