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

[Brian Henning via TriLUG]

Additional commentary by Jess is at:
https://gist.github.com/jesopo/45a3e9cdbe517dc55e6058eb43b00ed9

She suggests irc.libera.chat 

-B

-----Original Message-----
From: TriLUG <trilug-bounces+bhenning=pineresearch.com at trilug.org> On Behalf Of Kevin Faulkner via TriLUG
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 10:16 AM
To: Mark Turner <jmarkturner at gmail.com>; Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] TriLUG and Freenode - where do we go from here?

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