A play in how the open source and free software community responds to hostile takeovers in one act.
@atoponce Is anyone actually using Freenode anymore?
It seemed to me that the guy behind the takeover simply wanted to see it burn, and doesn't care at all whether anyone is actually using it?
@loke I don't think that's true. Andrew Lee just recently registered the domain libera.net, which used to belong to a Spanish ISP back from 2000, but went out of business.
irc.libera.net is now a CNAME to chat.freenode.net.
This appears to be a clear attempt at muddying the waters in hopes of getting new IRC users on the Freenode network, rather than Libera.Chat. It looks to me like he's desperate as Freenode is bleeding users.
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