Hello all, I think we shouldn't let this one die in silence. Apparently, new policies are being enforcing within Freenode and, if by mistake, a channel promotes another IRC network in their topic, they will be taken by freenode staff - meaning loss of rights, loss of ownership, and topic will be changed. that's not what we can call "foss supporting" anymore imho. (Though, apparently, this was due to some miscommunication - so long for the transparency, stability and so on.) Reading the «explanation» on both sides[1][2], as well as latest freenode communication[3], I'd rather go for the OFTC thing, since it's (really) independent of the whole thing. True freenode is (was?) a central player for FOSS communities. But with all the screaming around, it might get harder to stick with them. Though, right now, the current privacy policy[4] doesn't reflect any weird use of our data (that is, as of 2021-05-26, 08:30am CET). Maybe a false flag? We'll probably never really know, but checking that privacy policy and related contents evolution might provide a good hint. Some of the other communities I'm following have implemented a bridge bot, basically copy-pasting content from one network to another. That way, ppl could be on OFTC (or anywhere else where we have a foot on), while primary thing would stick to freenode (and thus allowing a clean migration)? My 2c ;). Cheers, C. [1] https://freenode.net/news/freenode-is-foss [2] https://libera.chat/news/welcome-to-libera-chat [3] https://freenode.net/news/for-foss [4] https://freenode.net/policies On 5/14/21 5:05 PM, Chris Morgan wrote:
https://twitter.com/dmsimard/status/1393203159770804225?s=20 <https://twitter.com/dmsimard/status/1393203159770804225?s=20> https://p.haavard.me/407 <https://p.haavard.me/407>
I have no independent validation of this.
Chris
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