Hoping there's one soon, the only way I connect to IRC these days is through a Matrix bridge and I don't want to run one myself :)

Do you have your own server? How hard was it to set up?

I run my own homeserver. It wasn't too hard to set up but it's fairly resource-intensive. I have it on a big Ryzen and barely notice it but I think it would crush something like a Raspberry Pi (especially if you tried to run it off an SD card)