just randomly remembering the end of #Freenode and smirking

Oh boy. I have used PIA and in 2014 we had a Mt. Gox account and all our precious coins were stolen (that was also then end of that) and also I have been on #freenode A LOT in around 1996-1997 and remember the drama later. Wowzers how did I not know that all of that is connected.

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Musk's takeover of Twitter and later of the whole friggin' US government bears many similarities with the hostile takeover of FreeNode by Andrew Lee.

www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/q6...

#freenode #twitter #musk #andrewlee […]

I never thought the hostile takeover of #freenode would have an equivalent in geopilitics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode

#elonmusk #trump #hostiletakeover #siege

I think I’ve found the last nail in the coffin of #freenode #irc an AI produced promotional video youtu.be/o5qvVsHI8KA

Kids these days don't remember the joy of sending a
CTCP PING
to #freenode and getting instantly k-lined

Graph of activity on the top 10 IRC Networks (user count) chart on Netsplit.de for 2021, showing a sharp decline in Freenode traffic over June, a corresponding rise in Libera.Chat traffic, and a measurement artifact near the end of July as Freenode started requiring a user account

Watching Bluesky fill up with ex-users of that other SNS so suddenly feels like watching #LiberaChat fill up with ex-users of #Freenode in June 2021.

It is a sad day for @libera.chat and #irc'

It was bad enough when the NetOps on #Freenode abused their power...

I truly expected better from Libera, but I was mistaken

It wasn't about making a better network for everyone, just about power and control and enforcing THEIR ideology

Okay so someone apparently set up a MS Comic Chat relay on #freenode and... this is ART

#IRC is really awesome until some dill-hole runs a spam campaign against all of the good open source contributors/operators. #OpenStack #freenode