From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23159 invoked from network); 21 May 2021 10:31:25 -0000 Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (2602:ff06:725:1:20::25) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 May 2021 10:31:25 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id b1bb6c55 for ; Fri, 21 May 2021 03:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [2602:3f:e0f9:dc00::2]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 2e20d046 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Fri, 21 May 2021 03:30:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Brannon To: edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org Subject: Re: [edbrowse-dev] proposal: moving #edbrowse from freenode to libera References: Message-ID: <8735ugxtsz.fsf@the-brannons.com> Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 03:30:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Kevin Carhart's message of "Fri, 21 May 2021 01:59:51 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org List-Id: Edbrowse Development List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Kevin Carhart" writes: > For the people who talk on the IRC channel and haven't already done > this, what do you think about moving to an #edbrowse on libera as a > result of the ongoing troubles? Here's the backstory for those who aren't following. This hits kind of close to home, since my girlfriend was Freenode staff and we actually met on Freenode. I dropped off Freenode suddenly, because I didn't want to deal with this stuff. Essentially, the head of staff at Freenode (Christel) sold it in 2017 to a bitcoin millionaire, Andrew Lee. Lee claimed that he would be hands-off. But last month, he made a power play, appointing people to staff positions and trying to have others removed from staff positions. Freenode has always been volunteer-run. The volunteer staff resigned en masse. Here are links to a couple of their resignation letters. https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bdd66b8f491 I registered #edbrowse on irc.libera.chat. A few of us are in ##edbrowse, but we may as well drop the extra # if we do move to the new network. -- Chris