A personal account of switching from ZNC to Soju as an IRC bouncer on Debian. Soju is praised for its zero-configuration setup — installing from the Debian package repository automatically handles config and certificate files, unlike ZNC which requires manual setup. The post walks through installation commands, creating a user and network via sojuctl, inspecting the SQLite database that stores configuration, and connecting an Irssi client to the bouncer on port 6697. Multiple IRC network connections through a single Soju instance are also covered.
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