[TriLUG] TriLUG and Freenode - where do we go from here?

[Kevin Faulkner via TriLUG]

On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 10:03:49 AM EDT Mark Turner via TriLUG wrote:
> The big news this morning is that Freenode as we know it is dead. Does
> TriLUG have plans for what to do now?
> 
Wow this is news to me. For what it's worth, Synapse/Matrix is federated and 
has multiple bridges that could be used. There really is no shortage of chat 
platforms out there today.
>  From https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461:
> 
> "As it is now known, the freenode IRC network has been taken over by a
> narcissistic Trumpian wannabe korean royalty bitcoins millionaire. To
> make a long story short, the former freenode head of staff secretly
> "sold" the network to this person even if it was not hers to sell, and
> our lawyers have advised us that there is not much that we can do about
> it without some of us risking financial ruin. Fuck you Christel, lilo's
> life work did not deserve this.
> 
> *What you knew as freenode after 12:00 UTC of May 19 will be managed by
> different people.*
> 
> As I have no desire to volunteer under the new regime, this marks the
> end of my involvement with freenode. It had started in 1999 when I
> encouraged the good parts of |#linux-it| to leave ircnet, and soon after
> I became senior staff. Even if I have not been very active recently, at
> this point I was the longest-serving freenode staff member and now I
> expect that I will hold this record forever.
> 
> The people that I have met on IRC, on freenode and other networks, have
> been and still are a very important part of my life, second only to the
> ones that I have known thanks to Usenet. I am not fine, but I know that
> the communities which I have been a part of are not defined by a domain
> name and will regroup somewhere else."
> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> More info: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> a.k.a. h0tgrits

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