Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
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#2freenode is dead. Everything it stood for is dead.
Staff tout free speech, but they apparently only mean troll speech since anyone speaking against them or announcing new homes is getting channels stolen and users banned. It's disgusting.
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#3Wow, they really think they own the communities just because people chose to use them for IRC? How fucking entitled and arrogant. I don't even use it, but death to Freenode. Obviously somebody thought they found a gold mine, but in their tunnel vision is so focused on "owning" something that they never owned, that they're willing to burn the whole place down to keep "owning" it.
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#4I've only been 1/2 following along with this, I'm not sure I get it now. Freenode staff now has total control over every single change on Freenode? Won't that drive everyone (literally everyone) away? What's the Freenode staff's goal here? I'm not a Freenode user and have no interest in this at all, just wondering as a somewhat interested outsider.
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#5Can someone provide some background? What started this?
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#6Why doesn't the new Freenode staff just shut down the IRC servers? That would be a lot less work than killing off each channel individually.
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#7I've only been 1/2 following along with this, I'm not sure I get it now. Freenode staff now has total control over every single change on Freenode? Won't that drive everyone (literally everyone) away? What's the Freenode staff's goal here? I'm not a Freenode user and have no interest in this at all, just wondering as a somewhat interested outsider.
You are correct. This will drive everyone away. Which is why we have graphs like this:
https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
Freenode is dying and the staff are actively killing it.
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#8The thing is, most people will just stay, and the freak behind Freenode will have numbers to back up his claims, that his "community" is strong. Who knows how many of those users just keep running irssi in screen or have it configured on bouncer, checking it once a year when they need to ask question. Maybe over long time, the numbers will shift. But most people just don't care about the platform they chat through.
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#9"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! ..." - seagulls from Finding Nemo
The only explanation of what's going on that I can think of.
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#10Seriously, what's the matter with this guy? I thought he was just really naive but I can't see an explanation for doing something like this that isn't malicious.