Strange, it appears that some of the people behind the #freenode #hostiletakeover and now starting up a new #irc #server named #ergo https://ergo.chat/ The IRC world is pretty small it seems. I personally will stick with #libera for a while. After this I think I might checkout the possibility of building a simple #telnet #server and #client and be done with IRC entirely. That will likely be down the road though!
Ouch, seems like #freenode and #redirecting a #libera looking #domain name to their #irc network: https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/A99J6E..
Ouch, the #irc #freenode server has been completely and utterly wiped now: https://old.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/o0.. They have really gone off the deep end now. Pretty much everyone is over on #libera as it stands.
Seems like the death of #irc 's #freenode is imminent if this graph is anything to go by: https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/ Seems like #libera has picked almost all of the users...
Another victim in the #irc #freenode debacle has been the #python channel: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/go.. Looks like #libera wins some new community members.
@barray on Thu May 27 03:56:49 UTC 2021 said: &e#freenode respond with an apology that falls short: https://freenode.net/news/post-mortem-ma.. They nuked some very high profile #irc servers - as others have pointed out the trust is now gone. They refuse to even name the alternative networks named #libera - kind of telling. Things are not looking good over there.Even more #irc communities being attacked by #freenode staff: https://twitter.com/CriadorDeJogos/statu.. I'm surprised more of these projects aren't just starting their own IRC servers in all honesty.
Interesting, I wasn't sure if #libera were involved in #ircvthree or not: https://twitter.com/IRCv3/status/1395425.. I was under the impression that the working group was funded by #freenode - but looking at this I believe this thinking was wrong: https://ircv3.net/
#freenode is going on a rampage of self destruction by killing an #irc channel that even mentions #libera https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kline/10629940.. I guess this is answering the question for most about whether or not they should migrate! I hear Freenode is losing users at a rate of knots. This is exactly why you don't piss off the hacker community.