On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 1:32 PM John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:16:32PM +0100, Trevor Hemsley via CentOS-devel wrote:
On 19/05/2021 18:09, Josh Boyer wrote:
Can you elaborate a bit on the choice of libera.chat? What made it appealing to move to? Why is it more trustworthy than freenode or oftc?
In case you hadn't followed the drama, freenode was subject to what appears to be a hostile takeover by a large company which some/many people distrust. I think that's probably the safest way to phrase it.
tl;dr version and this is accurate, yes.
Much longer version with lots of references written by a member of staff that resigned this morning and is now on the new network:
https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bdd66b8f491
If you want a complete background this is a good read.
Thank you to all that responded.
I'm left with the impression that I thought Freenode was more centrally organized and staffed than seems to be the case. I don't know why I thought that, because it makes no sense if I think about it for more than 2 minutes. WIth that in mind, it doesn't really seem to be much of a risk moving to an IRC service hosted on brand new infrastructure that materialized out of nowhere, since the existing infrastructure was already random. I'm glad the staff is the same. I wish them well.
josh