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 ## Communications
 
 For general questions, or discussions, please use the 
-IRC group on `irc.freenode.net` called `container-projects`
+IRC channel on `irc.libera.chat` called `#container-projects`
 that has been setup.
 
 For discussions around issues/bugs and features, you can use the github