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So what the heck did all of this accomplish for freenode? I am not really part of the FOSS community, but this entire thing sounds comically absurd. They bough

So what the heck did all of this accomplish for freenode? I am not really part of the FOSS community, but this entire thing sounds comically absurd. They bought something, threw a ton of people off it, and then seemingly wiped everything?

marcan_42 5y ago
It's pretty clear at this point that Lee is an unstable lunatic. There's no rhyme nor reason to what he's doing.
- amatecha 5y ago
  I feel validated in my prior flagged comment[0]. The guy clearly has no place running a community or user-facing service of any kind, IMO. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499083
  - Qwertious 5y ago
    No point linking it - we can't see what it says.
    - cheapie 5y ago
      If you turn "showdead" on in the user settings then you can.
  - manabi 5y ago
    I also feel validated, because I pointed out he was showing all the signs of Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and even linked a very thorough article[1] explaining what happens when narcissists fail, and also got flagged. Since this move fits in with the steps in that article, next up will be him turning on his current toadies when the "forked" Freenode continues to fail. He'll never accept that he failed personally, he's incapable of it. [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/202007/when-the-narcissist-fails https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/202007/wh...
Kim_Bruning 5y ago
I guess this vindicates the operators moving over to libera.chat . In practice, the actual network is mostly intact, just the name has changed.
- hexagon5un 5y ago
  There are two uses of the word "network". One of them is about the nodes that are all interconnected -- the people and the communities. That's all basically moved over to Libera.chat. The other is the physical infrastructure. Actually, most of that has _also_ moved over to Libera, and the new Freenode folks are standing up their own in place. Until this wipe, the silent and very professional migration of equipment from Freenode to Libera has been going on essentially unnoticed, and without drama. That's a credit to the former Freenode, now Libera staff, IMO. But yeah. When this all began, there were two reasonable hypotheses: that the (now) Libera folks were reactionaries, or that they had valid complaints with the new management. If the former, you would expect a tempest in a teapot, and then things would get back to normal. If the latter, you would expect continuing shitstorm.

marcan_42 5y ago

It's pretty clear at this point that Lee is an unstable lunatic. There's no rhyme nor reason to what he's doing.

amatecha 5y ago
I feel validated in my prior flagged comment[0]. The guy clearly has no place running a community or user-facing service of any kind, IMO. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499083
- Qwertious 5y ago
  No point linking it - we can't see what it says.
  - cheapie 5y ago
    If you turn "showdead" on in the user settings then you can.
- manabi 5y ago
  I also feel validated, because I pointed out he was showing all the signs of Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and even linked a very thorough article[1] explaining what happens when narcissists fail, and also got flagged. Since this move fits in with the steps in that article, next up will be him turning on his current toadies when the "forked" Freenode continues to fail. He'll never accept that he failed personally, he's incapable of it. [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/202007/when-the-narcissist-fails https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/202007/wh...

Kim_Bruning 5y ago

I guess this vindicates the operators moving over to libera.chat . In practice, the actual network is mostly intact, just the name has changed.

hexagon5un 5y ago
There are two uses of the word "network". One of them is about the nodes that are all interconnected -- the people and the communities. That's all basically moved over to Libera.chat. The other is the physical infrastructure. Actually, most of that has _also_ moved over to Libera, and the new Freenode folks are standing up their own in place. Until this wipe, the silent and very professional migration of equipment from Freenode to Libera has been going on essentially unnoticed, and without drama. That's a credit to the former Freenode, now Libera staff, IMO. But yeah. When this all began, there were two reasonable hypotheses: that the (now) Libera folks were reactionaries, or that they had valid complaints with the new management. If the former, you would expect a tempest in a teapot, and then things would get back to normal. If the latter, you would expect continuing shitstorm.