On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 1:18 PM Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On 5/19/21 1:09 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:50 AM Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> TL;DR: #centos and #centos-* are moving to libera.chat > ... > > > 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? > > > > I'm simply curious, not objecting to the move. > > Once the dust settles, libera.chat will be freenode with a new name. > Same staff. Many of the same hosted/donated servers. Same channels, for > the most part. This is all just a very disruptive, inconvenient renaming > of the network. Like in 1998, but with memes. > > John answered the "why not oftc" question else-thread, and he has more > experience with both networks than I. Wow. I see that the name "librenode", to follow the recent traditions of "libressl" and "libreoffice" software forks, was unavailable. Sorry you folks have been made so unhappy, such a mess can take years if not decades to recover from.