[Discuss] IRC problems at freenode?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

BLU has had a channel on freenode for decades. Given the mass migration, it
seems prudent to move our channel to libera. Just need to be sure that
everyone using the channel knows about the move.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 3:25 PM Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com>
wrote:

> So where do the cool blu folks go?   Would be fun to IRC again.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> > On Jun 17, 2021, at 3:18 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
> >
> > ?Ian Kelling wrote:
> >>
> >> Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> Christopher Perrault wrote:
> >>>> I don't know the specifics of the issue(s), but I know something's up
> >>>> because Fedora and Centos switched their channels to Libera also.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> https://ariadne.space/2021/05/20/the-whole-freenode-kerfluffle/
> >>>
> >>> and eventually
> >>>
> >>> https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/
> >>>
> >>> -dsr-
> >>
> >> Yes. tldr is that freenode is now libera.chat
> >
> > That's... inaccurate.
> >
> > freenode suffered a coup, a totalitarian takeover, and then
> > kicked everyone out in order to attain pure enlightenment. It's
> > true, with no users comes a kind of purity.
> >
> > libera.chat was created by some of the former freenode admins,
> > has protections against suffering the same fate, and has been
> > chosen by many projects as their new home.
> >
> > The other major IRC network for free and open source communities
> > (among others) is oftc.net, which is sponsored by Software in
> > the Public Interest. oftc is where the official Debian channels
> > were and still are.
> >
> > -dsr-
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