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On Wed, May 19, 2021, 15:35 Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 3:21 PM Erno Kuvaja <ekuvaja at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> For those of you who have not woken up to this sad day yet. Andrew Lee
>> has taken his stance as owner of freenode ltd. and by the (one sided) story
>> of the former volunteer staff members basically forced the whole community
>> out.
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>> As there is history of LTM shutting down networks before (snoonet), it is
>> appropriate to expect that the intentions here are not aligned with the
>> communities and specially the users who's data he has access to via this
>> administrative takeover.
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>> I think it's our time to take swift action and show our support to all
>> the hard working volunteers who were behind freenode and move all our
>> activities to irc.libera.chat.
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> Probably not the best timing, but should we consider (again) running a
> more advanced free software chat system? E.g. Outreachy uses Zulip, Mozilla
> - Matrix, there are probably more.
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+1, IRC is great, but it's technologically too outdated.

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> Dmitry
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>> Please see https://twitter.com/freenodestaff and Christian's letter
>> which links to the others as well
>> https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt
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>> Best,
>> Erno 'jokke' Kuvaja
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