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Yesterday I got this global notice on Freenode IRC network:
We are moving past legacy freenode to a new fork. The new freenode is launched. You will slowly be disconnected and when you reconnect, you will be on the new freenode. We patiently await to welcome you in freedom's holdout - the freenode.
If you're looking to connect now, you can already /server chat.freenode.net 6697 (ssl) or 6667 (plaintext). It's a new genesis for a new era. Thank you for using freenode, and Hello World, from the future. freenode is IRC. freenode is FOSS. freenode is freedom.
When you connect, register your nickname and your channel and get started. It's a new world. We're so happy to welcome you and the millions of others. We will be posting more information in the coming days on our website and twitter. Otherwise, see you on the other side!
I didn't notice it until I was disconnected and reconnected today and found myself cancelled on the network. Since there is no blog post mentioned in the system notice, I went looking and I found a summary of this week's drama from Hugo Landau.
Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network
The old services database (registered nicknames, channels, etc.) is apparently gone. All of your registered nicknames and channels are gone. Anyone who wishes to continue to use Freenode (though at this point I honestly can't imagine why anyone would want to) must re-register their nickname.
In short, it seems there was no effort whatsoever to migrate the services database when migrating from Atheme to Anope. Not only that, this transition happened suddenly with, as far as I am aware, zero warning. Freenode has simply dropped all nickname and channel registrations without warning.
Even my channel ##hntop which was previously seized personally by Andrew Lee is no longer registered. It's literally open season for anyone who wants to impersonate someone else, steal their nickname, or take over someone else's channel.
What a strange move, to delete all users and channels and make no effort to move them to a new system, and not explain themselves publicly in a blog post!
Earlier Soylent coverage: Freenode Hijacked (Part 2)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @08:08PM (4 children)
What SJW nonsense is happening at Libera? Enforced pronouns? Banned topics?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @08:43PM (3 children)
Apparatchiks from the ADL in every channel, all channel background graphics set to the fag-flag, looking to report dissenting viewpoints as "White Supremacy Domestic Terrorists" or some shit. Then all the pudgy burger-farting FBI agents* will kneel for their black bulls and raise their fists before summary executions.
* What happened to them anyway, besides the woke bullshit? Didn't the FBI have like fitness standards or something?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:23PM (2 children)
Masks off eh? Would it shock you to know that the US was founded on woke values? Wasn't perfect, and in fact had lots of problems we're still deaing with today, but the urge for freedom and justice was there.
Do you have a problem with supporting freedoms for all? Or should some people only count as 3/5 of others?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:48PM (1 child)
Come now, let's compromise. 4/5.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:56PM
And Pi == 3, because math is hard.