One week of Libera Chat

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Post by wut42 » Wed, May 26, 2021, 10:31 AM UTC

One week of Libera Chat
libera.chat

Re: One week of Libera Chat

#2

Post by threatofrain » Wed, May 26, 2021, 10:58 AM UTC

Prior discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207734

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by 0mp » Wed, May 26, 2021, 10:58 AM UTC

It's incredible how fast the whole transition is happening. I'm really grateful to the Libera Chat team for creating a space for the communities to move to. Amazing job!

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by bencollier49 » Wed, May 26, 2021, 10:58 AM UTC

This controversy has got me back on IRC. It feels good to be sitting in chatrooms and occasionally able to pitch in and help people. And the interface is better than Slack. :-)

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by nairboon » Wed, May 26, 2021, 10:58 AM UTC

Libera.Chat is growing quite fast [0], let's see how it ranks in another week [1]. Todays channel hijacking on freenode [2] will probably trigger a bigger move.

[0]: https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat

[1]: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by phoe-krk » Wed, May 26, 2021, 11:07 AM UTC

The noteworthy (IMO, obviously) communities/projects that I have seen jump ship (either voluntarily or by force) are wikimedia & wikimedia, ubuntu, gentoo, centos, kde, postgres, sourcehut, wesnoth, mutt, vim, emacs, lisp, scheme, clojure, haskell. Any other ones that I haven't seen yet?

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by wut42 » Wed, May 26, 2021, 11:11 AM UTC

phoe-krk wrote: post #6

The noteworthy (IMO, obviously) communities/projects that I have seen jump ship (either voluntarily or by force) are wikimedia & wikimedia, ubuntu, gentoo, centos, kde, postgres, sourcehut, wesnoth, mutt, vim, emacs, lisp, scheme, clojure, haskell. Any other ones that I haven't seen yet?

Alpine (to oftc), voidlinux, grafana, prometheus, fosdem, curl, bastillebsd, couchdb, musl, ircpuzzles, jellyfin, gamingonlinux, xen, devuan, irssi, weechat, …. The list is too big to get it exhaustively

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by zokier » Wed, May 26, 2021, 11:11 AM UTC

I want to say just that I appreciate the positive and largely non-confrontational tone of this post. Considering the circumstances it could have as easily become muddled with bitterness and/or cheap snipes.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by eclipseo76 » Wed, May 26, 2021, 11:12 AM UTC

phoe-krk wrote: post #6

The noteworthy (IMO, obviously) communities/projects that I have seen jump ship (either voluntarily or by force) are wikimedia & wikimedia, ubuntu, gentoo, centos, kde, postgres, sourcehut, wesnoth, mutt, vim, emacs, lisp, scheme, clojure, haskell. Any other ones that I haven't seen yet?

Fedora is planning too, but it's colliding with our project of having our own Matrix server bridged with IRC.

Re: One week of Libera Chat

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Post by CornCobs » Wed, May 26, 2021, 11:14 AM UTC

The identical experience of libera chat makes me realize how useful open protocols are, and how much harder it would be to do something like this with some platform like discord