Freenode woes / Libera migration?

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2021-05-20 13:58, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 12:21 +0200, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> as you might or might not have noticed (I didn't until seeing some
>> chatter on #openwrt) there seemed to be some kind of hostile takeover /
>> fork / whatever going on at Freenode and the entire network operator
>> team quit and started a new libera.chat network [1]
>> 
>> Not sure if it is the time just yet to migrate there (maybe it turns out
>> to be a storm in the water glass and everything keeps functioning as
>> before), but I figured it might make sense to register an OpenWrt
>> organization [2] at libera.chat in case it turns out to be the official
>> Freenode successor.
>> 
>> In order to do that, we need to provide a number of contacts which serve
>> as liaison between libera and OpenWrt, so I'd like to ask who - if any -
>> of you already registered with their NickServ and who would like to
>> serve as contact.
>> 
>> 
>> TL;DR
>> 
>> - Do project registration at libera.chat? yes/no
>> - Are you already registered with their NickServ? yes/no
>> - Do you want to volunteer serving as liaison? yes/no
>> 
> 
> I'm slightly more inclined to move to OFTC instead, having moved other
> channels there a few years ago to escape Freenode.
+1 for OFTC

- Felix