Re: Migrate off Freenode IRC?

2021-05-20 Thread Julian Foad
For contrast: "The Panic Over Freenode Isn’t Justified and Its Reaction Mostly Disproportionate" http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/freenode-and-cancel-culture/ It took me a while to find an article that covered the issue in what seems a more balanced way than most, and I just want to share that.

Re: Migrate off Freenode IRC?

2021-05-20 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 4:24 PM Nathan Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 7:18 AM Stefan Sperling wrote: >> >> >> In order to signal our move to the new IRC service, I believe we should >> mark our freenode channels as 'moved to libera.chat' in their topic lines, >> as soon as we have con

Re: Migrate off Freenode IRC?

2021-05-20 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 7:18 AM Stefan Sperling wrote: > > In order to signal our move to the new IRC service, I believe we should > mark our freenode channels as 'moved to libera.chat' in their topic lines, > as soon as we have consensus in this project that we indeed want to move. > > Are there

Re: Migrate off Freenode IRC?

2021-05-20 Thread Julian Foad
The topic of the IRC Matrix Bridges room ( https://matrix.to/#/#irc:matrix.org ) now says "A libera.chat bridge is underway - stay tuned..." :-) Stefan Sperling wrote: > OK, then let's focus on a possible Freenode -> Libera move first. > > Daniel Shahaf and myself have control of #svn and #svn-d

Re: Migrate off Freenode IRC?

2021-05-20 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:43:43AM +0100, Julian Foad wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Keeping a matrix bridge to the current freenode channels alive means we're > > not actually leaving this network. To support the former freenode staff it > > makes more sense to switch IRC server *and* possibl

Re: Migrate off Freenode IRC?

2021-05-20 Thread Julian Foad
Stefan Sperling wrote: > First thing I checked was which clients are available for me to install > on OpenBSD systems. [...] Apart from web clients (e.g. https://fluffychat.im/web/ , https://app.element.io/ ) which should work "fine" subject to the inherent limitations of web clients, your optio

Re: Migrate off Freenode IRC?

2021-05-20 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 07:23:43PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote: > Looks like we might want to move our channels, bots, and so on? > Libera.chat [2] has been posited as a direct replacement. > However, the sane replacement these days is Matrix [1]. I understand Matrix has more modern technology, an