A lot of organizations I care about used to have an IRC presence (eg Creative Commons) and moved primarily Slack based on the justification of "well there's an IRC / XMPP bridge". But it turned out that was a bait and switch: https://opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-and-switch/
@cwebber You know I warned people but nobody listened *sigh*
@cwebber Cue Discord crippling or disabling API access next so interoperability is basically dead