Freenode, the WMF's favorite IRC system, is sold off

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Re: Freenode, the WMF's favorite IRC system, is sold off

Post by ericbarbour » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:06 am

Some of Freenode's longtime geek users are REALLY pissed now:
https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_suicide

And some of them won't give it up:
http://techrights.org/2021/06/04/irc-control/

I would mutter something about nerd-libertarians but why bother--one common "feature" of all IRC networks in recent years has been paranoid conspiracy-theorizing by techheads. They are STILL using IRC to pass around ravings about reptile aliens, illuminati, Covid being a bioweapon/vaccination thing/etc, and the like. Unlike Facebook or Twitter: on IRC they can be as insane as they want. Becuase no one else will see their ravings.


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Re: Freenode, the WMF's favorite IRC system, is sold off

Post by sammywalker » Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:09 pm

That global user count graph on isfreenodedeadyet. Ouch.

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