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Freenode hijacked
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On freenode and its commitment to FOSS (Andrew Lee's May 19th response)
https://libera.chat/ (new network)
Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power
https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse
There have been several allegations of this since the handover of the Freenode infrastructure to its new custodians, but I can now provide a first-hand account of one incident — because I am the victim of it.
A channel which I registered, ##hntop, has been taken over by Andrew Lee (rasengan) without my knowledge or consent.
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Conclusions. In other words, it appears that a Freenode services admin, presumably rasengan,
- forcibly dropped the channel and reregistered it so as to put themselves in control of it, and render me no longer in control of it;
- clearly did this with the express purpose of frustrating an attempt by that channel's founder (me) to relocate it to another IRC network; and
- cover up the fact that I had sought to do so.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 24 2021, @04:39PM
The glow in the dark people of color take over areas to spread propaganda. Apparently ##hntop was either genuine grassroots "old style internet" OR it had been taken over for propaganda reasons by a competing tribe of glow in the dark people of color and now they're having a delicious turf war. I do miss that templeOS dude he would have had something insightful to say about this situation.
I was under the impression that everyone had gone to Slack or elsewhere because of ease of integrations and better support. Dying organizations always going far left, I would assume Freenode has (had?) like 500 channels of antifa, and their pet BLM, all empty of actual convo of course. Or it might just be dead in the water.
There's a species of gregarious programmer who can't write fizzbuzz without a chat channel and a diverse community around them with a politically correct contribution covenant because you know it takes a village to write a fizzbuzz so thats why FOSS projects have chat channels. Or is it a containment board to keep those who would rather chat from making stupid strcpy buffer overflows if they actually tried to code? A chat channel does show a certain level of dysfunction of any project where its purpose is mostly to shittalk the opposition when there's a technical debate in a project, thus the less useful the coder the more likely they have time to shittalk so "democracy rules" so having a chat channel means the dumbest decision will always be selected and enforced on the project. In the old days. In the new political terrorism days I suppose IRC exists so devs can say stuff like "you can't cancel me because I joined #blm and my nick has a gay rainbow emoji in it" aka basically twitter but old school.