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

[Jeffery Painter via TriLUG]

FYI - the ASF mailing list posted similar remarks about potentially 
moving to libera.

https://libera.chat/news/welcome-to-libera-chat


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Jeffery Painter


On 5/19/21 10:24 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG wrote:
> 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