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Re: Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

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Post by LeoPanthera »

The fact that this doesn't even mention Freenode is hilarious, and so awkward. Whoever wrote this had to really go out of their way to construct a history that isn't technically wrong, but, if you didn't know that Libera got its start as a fork of Freenode that almost everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible, you'd never figure it out.

Re: Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

#4

Post by hericium »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

The fact that this doesn't even mention Freenode is hilarious, and so awkward. Whoever wrote this had to really go out of their way to construct a history that isn't technically wrong, but, if you didn't know that Libera got its start as a fork of Freenode that almost everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible, you'd never figure it out.

The text could actually mention Freenode because this wasn't really a "start from scratch" as stated:

> Starting from scratch, we managed to gain around 50 000 users in just a month and a half

Re: Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

#5

Post by iforgotpassword »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

The fact that this doesn't even mention Freenode is hilarious, and so awkward. Whoever wrote this had to really go out of their way to construct a history that isn't technically wrong, but, if you didn't know that Libera got its start as a fork of Freenode that almost everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible, you'd never figure it out.

Do we have any reliable info on how freenode is even doing today? At least some accurate user counts? Who is using it? When the Exodus started, it seemed to turn into some right wing cesspool, but that was also more hearsay iirc.

Re: Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

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Post by RL_Quine »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #5
LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

The fact that this doesn't even mention Freenode is hilarious, and so awkward. Whoever wrote this had to really go out of their way to construct a history that isn't technically wrong, but, if you didn't know that Libera got its start as a fork of Freenode that almost everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible, you'd never figure it out.

Do we have any reliable info on how freenode is even doing today? At least some accurate user counts? Who is using it? When the Exodus started, it seemed to turn into some right wing cesspool, but that was also more hearsay iirc.

It's had a bunch of guises as a website. For a while it was a blog filled with shouting about how removing the administrators will allow for real Free Speech and the future of everything will be freenode (and cryptocurrency, please buy our shitcoin maybe).

https://web.archive.org/web/20210912070004/https://freenode....

It was turned into a Free Speech reddit clone for a bit, which nobody used.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220402191330/https://freenode....

It's now a wiki which refers to the network as "assmode" and implores you to instead join "pissnet" run by the Impeerial Family.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220517234626/https://freenode....

Sort of the death knell of desperately trying to form a community.

Re: Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

#9

Post by abstractbeliefs »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

The fact that this doesn't even mention Freenode is hilarious, and so awkward. Whoever wrote this had to really go out of their way to construct a history that isn't technically wrong, but, if you didn't know that Libera got its start as a fork of Freenode that almost everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible, you'd never figure it out.

Good, freenode is dead. Amen.

I'm sure it doesn't help that the current owner of freenode is notoriously litigious.

Re: Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

#10

Post by GekkePrutser »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

The fact that this doesn't even mention Freenode is hilarious, and so awkward. Whoever wrote this had to really go out of their way to construct a history that isn't technically wrong, but, if you didn't know that Libera got its start as a fork of Freenode that almost everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible, you'd never figure it out.

I wonder if they're afraid Lee might sue them if they did or something

Edit: Or maybe they don't want to drag the whole drama into this celebration again :) Libera moved on so quickly that even after 2 months it felt like everything was in the distant past and the community was just as it had always been.

But then it would have been better to not elaborate on the history. I agree it's a bit weird like this.

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