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It just seems so cocky and immature. I don't think it's a good look for Freenode. Normally I would have thought Freenode is a respectable organisation, this article gives me a very different feel.
Can someone better-immersed in IRC culture explain why the temperature is still so high? All the summaries I've read have amounted to nothing, and comments on all of these things just look like kindergartners shouting at each other.
FOSS is rife with stupid drama and I don’t think either “side” here is an exception, but the recent “purge” goes above and beyond. I would absolutely never consider trying to start a community there now, for entirely pragmatic reasons.
I have to admit I'm not up to speed on the current events, but this article is something that no company or organisation should be proud to have hosted on their website. It just seems so cocky and immature. I don't think it's a good look for Freenode. Normally I would have thought Freenode is a respectable organisation, this article gives me a very different feel.
The old staff are running https://libera.chat/
So the new staff is: * a deluded President (rasengan) picking grandiose self-titles * a head of training who was fired from Rizon for leaking user data (foxy) * someone who wants to build a pan-irc surveillance apparatus (bagira) [1] * someone who was ejected from the IRCv3 working group for persistent harrassment (eskimo) [2] and they all have access to user data, including being able to see through cloaks to real c…
Every channel on Freenode that mentioned 'libera' in any capacity has been joined by a bot, had the topic renamed, ownership removed, all users deopped/unvoiced and all bans cleared. Something that was against Freenode policy... until yesterday. They also nuked private channels that were being used for Wikimedia and Wikipedia's editor communications. https://pastebin.com/S2sDiiPE Clown Prince wants to be a Dictator.