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Is anyone else having flashbacks to the freenode takeover?

• jmclnx 3y ago
  I did not think of this, but yes, seems the same. Will have to go looking and see what ended up happening with Freenode.
  • wkat4242 3y ago
    Well that's easy. After the initial kicking of the old admins a community split was looming because not every project cared that much and some worried about the hassle of changing networks. But Lee sped things up considerably by deleting all user and channel registrations, leaving his last holdout supporters at the mercy of randos that happened to be the first to join the channel. That was basically the last drop and libera is now exactly like freenode was before he started stirring trouble. Only one or two projects went somewhere else (like alpine which went to oftc). But libera is just as well run as freenode was before the incident and after a month or so it was already like it never happened. Nobody even talks about it anymore, it's just over and done. It's the best outcome possible IMO. No dragged out legal battles, no months of toxicity. Just problem solved. Kudos to the admins who proved they were right all along and have the chops to run a network efficiently and create a great atmosphere without conflicts. And the new organization has a legal framework to prevent such a thing from happening again. Something tells me Reddit won't go that easily. Not only because there's no exact replacement ready (lemmy isn't really it) and because the management isn't likely to shoot themselves in the foot that badly.
• ParetoOptimal 3y ago
  What's freenode? ;)
  • LoganDark 3y ago
    They must be referring to some old version of Libera.Chat.
• meepmorp 3y ago
  spez is the crown prince of reddit
• MikusR 3y ago
  With freenode to libera you just changed server and registered a new account. All the channels/people were there. There is no alternative like that with Reddit/Twitter.