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In my experience, it feels like 90% of Freenode channels have moved to Libera, 5% have moved to OFTC, and 5% have moved to something else like Discord or "just
by geofft 5y ago
In my experience, it feels like 90% of Freenode channels have moved to Libera, 5% have moved to OFTC, and 5% have moved to something else like Discord or "just use GitHub issues" or whatever.
Certainly the number of moves to Libera is high enough that in practice the Freenode community/userbase is more or less also on Libera (turns out IRC clients can connect to multiple networks easily). So if you want the old community it's there; if you happen to want to target a different community anyway (and perhaps you were experimenting with these options already), Discord and Slack and so forth are there.
- floatboth 5y agoHm, with the channels I'm in, it's more 50/50 for libera vs OFTC. OFTC now has Asahi, Meson, and the whole graphics stack (dri-devel, intel-gfx, radeon, wayland…)
- marcan_42 5y agoOFTC already had a significant kernel dev presence, so a lot of us in this niche gravitated towards there. The broader open source community definitely skewed more towards Libera, though. Which is fine, diversity is good!