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All this #Fosstodon drama remember me #freenode I know the reasons to move to other instance are differents, but I can't stop to thing that #fosstodon is freenode and probably #flosssocial is #liberachat
Musk's takeover of Twitter and later of the whole friggin' US government bears many similarities with the hostile takeover of FreeNode by Andrew Lee.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/q6k9md/ircfreenode_this_is_not_a_hostile_takeover_says/
Before the age of slack/discord, old timers who needed…
www.reddit.comI never thought the hostile takeover of #freenode would have an equivalent in geopilitics.
The Evolution of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the oldest forms of real-time communication on the internet. It was created in August 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen, a Finnish programmer, as a replacement for a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on the University of Oulu's network.
Read More: https://machaddr.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-internet-relay-chat
#IRC #Chat #OpenSource #Internet #Network #Freenode #Libera #Linux #Computer #Science #Rooms
@sixtus bin immernoch erstaunt, wie schnell der Sprung vom #IRC Netzwerk #Freenode nach #LiberaChat 2021 ging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera_Chat#/media/File:IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png
(und ja, ich weiß, ich bin wohl auch ein bisschen alt, weil ich IRC erwähne :D )
@yisraeldov I have lost a count how many times my acquaintances asked me if they can contact me via #WhatsApp. The nearest competitors are #Telegram and #Viber. Of the three mentioned #messengers, I use Telegram. I do not use #Matrix; I tried Matrix and not liked it (the same about #Tox). I use #XMPP aka #Jabber and also #SIP (#VoIP), but not actively for now. I used to use also #IRC until #Freenode gone to another owner.
Libera Chat es una red de IRC, fundada el 19 de mayo de 2021, por los antiguos miembros de #Freenode debido a diferencias con la gestión que Andrew Lee estaba haciendo desde abril de 2021. La red fue fundada después de que la mayor parte de los voluntarios que gestionaban Freenode dimitiesen (Wikipedia).
Muchos proyectos de #softwarelibre tienen sus salas de conversación en este sitio, incluída la misma Free Software Fundación #FSF.
Puedes utilizar #LiberaChat desde su sitio web https://libera.chat y también desde el Cliente IRC de tu preferencia.
Nos leemos en el #Fediverso!
https://libretics.org/2024/03/01/de-vuelta-al-irc-con-libera-chat/
@erik Most everyone moved to @liberachat after #Freenode shut down. #IRC is still alive and well, just elsewhere.
@carnage4life sounds like Leenode, I mean, #freenode, all over again.
@Sandra It didn't work terribly well. Few of its users even replied to our questions. Judging by other weird encounters (there was the occasional wave of Italians looking for warez), it seemed that someone set up a customized client with a list of IRC servers and channels to join by default. Which of course explained how they'd end up on #freenode, but little else.
I got curious about what happened to #Freenode, and I read an article about it, and... it seems really similar to what happened to #Twitter recently...
Freenode is collapsing: Projects are leaving, users…
FOSS Postthe current drama on here reminds me so much of what we saw happening on #irc with the crumbling #freenode, and #liberachat taking over, just on another level
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What we are seeing on #masterdon seems to me to be the beginnings of a similar exodus from Twitter to Mastodon.
I suspect it will be a slower process because of the scale of the content provider / user base. There may be a need for some usability improvements along the way, and we may see some growth pains and capacity issues...
But it feels to me that this is a mass migration that has started and will not be possible to prevent.
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Freenode was an IRC network/server that hosted a lot of open source communities, and free speech channels.
Earlier this year there was what can only be described as a coup, most of the admins resigned and within days had set up a competing network/server libera.chat, and literally within a week or two almost the entire set of content / channel providers had moved elsewhere, taking their users with them and leaving freenode a ghost-town ...