Freenode woes / Libera migration?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu May 20 12:58:17 BST 2021


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.

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