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

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

I suggest irc.libera.chat too. One bad server doesn't make the IRC
protocol bad. IRC is the last of its kind: A protocol a mere mortal can
understand and use without all sorts of guitization and "let me help
you with that". The IRC protocol is a really beautiful thing.

SteveT


Brian Henning via TriLUG said on Wed, 19 May 2021 14:24:59 +0000

>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  
>
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