[Discuss] IRC problems at freenode?

[Dan Ritter]

John Abreau wrote: 
> I noticed some discussion of problems at freenode. Apparently there has
> been a takeover of network operations, the former freenode staff are gone,
> and the new management is hostile to FLOSS. The former staff are now
> running Linux.Chat and the #linux channel on Libera.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> https://freenode.linux.community/
> 
> https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-gnu-move-official-irc-channels-to-libera-chat-network
> 
> https://linux.chat/
> 

Oh, wow, yes. There was a lot.

It's not that the new management is hostile to FLOSS. The new
management is hostile to everybody.

All my channels spent a couple of days discussing it and then
moved to libera.chat. All of them.

-dsr-