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Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
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Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#32freenode 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.
Freenode is not dead, it has a new name. And everything it stood for is especially not dead.
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#33The reasoning is quite simple: Lee wants to force everybody away from Freenode to Libera so that he has full control and power over an empty Freenode network.
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#34freenode 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.
What I don't understand is why they double down on this destructive behaviour. It's a really excellent way to piss off those that hadn't left yet (and as such must have been leaning towards their side!), nothing else. But really what they're doing is the opposite of responsible and fair management. I don't want a network to be run like this.
I guess it goes with the personality type. They are right, irrelevant of the blatant facts fleeing out the door every day, and blog posts detailing their malcontent every week.
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#35Wow, 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.
is it really any different than say.. Discord?
or a subreddit?
it always stuck me as amazing in how much autonomy IRC channels tend to have on various servers, especially as the internet has changed in the past 20 years.
Between mobs wanting "accountability" for speech they don't like, the increases in liability, the MSM targeting any platform that has any free speech or autonomy to it (be it Substack, podcasts, E2EE messaging, etc.) or just blatant cash grabs by trying to control and bank off something fairly open... i thought IRC - in its near entirety - would have gone this direction a long time ago.
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#36What's everyone's favorite linux-based client nowadays? I've been out of it a long time, but recent events have got me interested in seeing what's happening at libre chat.
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#37The reasoning is quite simple: Lee wants to force everybody away from Freenode to Libera so that he has full control and power over an empty Freenode network.
Why, though? How does that benefit him in any way?
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#38What's everyone's favorite linux-based client nowadays? I've been out of it a long time, but recent events have got me interested in seeing what's happening at libre chat.
I use ZNC to connect to irc and switch between a couple clients, but mainly I use irssi. I keep ZNC always running so I can still see what was said while I was away.
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#39Wow, 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.
is it really any different than say.. Discord? or a subreddit? it always stuck me as amazing in how much autonomy IRC channels tend to have on various servers, especially as the internet has changed in the past 20 years. Between mobs wanting "accountability" for speech they don't like, the increases in liability, the MSM targeting any platform that has any free speech or autonomy to it (be it Substack, podcasts, E2EE…
It probably would have had people continued using it in big numbers. It also helps that any major disagreement is resolved with "ok now there's 2 networks"
Re: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff
#40Wow, 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.
is it really any different than say.. Discord? or a subreddit? it always stuck me as amazing in how much autonomy IRC channels tend to have on various servers, especially as the internet has changed in the past 20 years. Between mobs wanting "accountability" for speech they don't like, the increases in liability, the MSM targeting any platform that has any free speech or autonomy to it (be it Substack, podcasts, E2EE…
It’s different in that it’s not what you are signing up for.