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FSF and GNU channels seized by Freenode staff

by zatertip on 6/13/21, 7:46 AM with 10 comments

  • by zatertip on 6/13/21, 7:46 AM

    Having decided to move their channels to Libera, with a final transition date of June 25th, the Free Software Foundation channels were seized by freenode staff early today.

  • by Arnt on 6/13/21, 10:20 AM

    The best IRC admins are levelheaded and slow to anger.

    Andrew Lee doesn't seem to have found many such people when he recruited new volunteers for Freenode.

  • by tutfbhuf on 6/13/21, 12:42 PM

    It seems to me as Lee wants to force everybody away from Freenode to Libera and other servers. I just don't understand why.

  • by vq on 6/13/21, 8:42 AM

  • by vfclists on 6/13/21, 10:08 AM

    Much as Freenode Ltd/Andrew Lee may be seen as having taken over Freenode it is clear that disloyal and morally suspect Freenode domain administrators are as much to blame.

    Whoever transferred those domains must have known the possible consequences but were clearly not deterred.

    Did they inform the community or consult them before?