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FSF and GNU channels seized by Freenode staff

45 points| zatertip | 4 years ago |twitter.com | reply

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[+] zatertip|4 years ago|reply
Having decided to move their channels to Libera, with a final transition date of June 25th, the Free Software Foundation channels were seized by freenode staff early today.
[+] Arnt|4 years ago|reply
The best IRC admins are levelheaded and slow to anger.

Andrew Lee doesn't seem to have found many such people when he recruited new volunteers for Freenode.

[+] tutfbhuf|4 years ago|reply
It seems to me as Lee wants to force everybody away from Freenode to Libera and other servers. I just don't understand why.
[+] vfclists|4 years ago|reply
Much as Freenode Ltd/Andrew Lee may be seen as having taken over Freenode it is clear that disloyal and morally suspect Freenode domain administrators are as much to blame.

Whoever transferred those domains must have known the possible consequences but were clearly not deterred.

Did they inform the community or consult them before?

[+] alyxw|4 years ago|reply
You.. you've heard about the whole Libera thing, right? The thing where literally all of existing staff went "We're being legally forced to do the thing. freenode is bad now. we have an alternative available"?