The IRCops of most major IRC servers are very hands off - they will not get involved in user disputes at all unless the IRC server itself is in danger.
However, you get kicked out of a Discord server or Facebook group, you're in the same situation, and Discord/Facebook isn't going to help you most of the time unless the group is violating TOS. Most IRC server's TOS are very liberal because the IRC server itself doesn't really store any data other than possibly some actual chat text - it doesn't hold images, files, etc.
> And there's also a single global namespace - it's not feasible to found a replacement for, say, #chat.
With modern IRC services you can actually create "neutral" lobby-type channels that have the services daemon as the op.
But unless you run your own chat server or social media service you'll always be at the mercy of who runs it at least a little bit.
The IRCops of most major IRC servers are very hands off - they will not get involved in user disputes at all unless the IRC server itself is in danger.
However, you get kicked out of a Discord server or Facebook group, you're in the same situation, and Discord/Facebook isn't going to help you most of the time unless the group is violating TOS. Most IRC server's TOS are very liberal because the IRC server itself doesn't really store any data other than possibly some actual chat text - it doesn't hold images, files, etc.
> And there's also a single global namespace - it's not feasible to found a replacement for, say, #chat.
With modern IRC services you can actually create "neutral" lobby-type channels that have the services daemon as the op.
But unless you run your own chat server or social media service you'll always be at the mercy of who runs it at least a little bit.