Re: [Cellar] IRC channel again

Steve Lhomme <slhomme@matroska.org> Sun, 30 May 2021 06:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cellar] IRC channel again
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On 2021-05-28 12:09, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> yeah, we talked about the IRC channel on Tuesday and decided to postpone
> the decision (or not to do anything at that point). Mostly people didn't
> have a strong opinion one way or the other.
> 
> Over the last couple of days Freenode has cracked down on several hundred
> channels, simply due to them having "libera.chat" in the topic. Not just on
> channels that actually planned to move, but also on channels that were
> simply thinking about moving or that did NOT in fact wanted to move and
> told their users via their topic.
> 
> Cracking down means that a Freenode bot came in, renamed the channel,
> removed rights from existing ops, changed the topic and basically archived
> the channel. They're seizing control of channels they have nothing to do
> with.
> 
> Here are a couple of examples:
> 
> https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.html
> https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kline/106299403921451814
> https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2021/05/26/announcing-ubuntus-move-to-libera-chat/
> 
> I find all of this highly offensive to a community of free/open source
> projects.
> 
> Therefore I do have a strong opinion now: let's move our IRC to
> libera.chat, please.
> 
> As all of you didn't have a strong opinion on Tuesday, I'll assume you're
> OK with that move. Unless someone objects by Sunday, I'll implement the
> move on Monday (closing the channel on Freenode, updating our web page).

I support the move. This has become ridiculous. AFAIK Videolan is also 
moving there.

> Switching to other chat tools (XMPP/Jabber, Matrix…) is a totally different
> topic I'm not trying to tackle at this point; moving IRC is easy enough to
> implement and somewhat time sensitive due to recent events.
> 
> m.
> 
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