tl;dr: You can now chat in #wikimedia-rust:matrix.org and reach folks on IRC Nearly a year ago, the official Libera.Chat <-> Matrix bridge was shut down. There's a lot that went wrong in the technical and social operation of the bridge that the Libera.Chat staff have helpfully documented, but from a…
A tale of two IRC networks:#Freenode: kicked us out of our channels, harassed one of our ops on their home page, made supposedly "draft" policy changes to permit hate speech#LiberaChat: participated in our forum to address questions about governance and non-profit structure and asked for feedback on improvements:
It's official, #Wikimedia is moving to #LiberaChat / @liberachat I've set up most of #mediawiki (still missing one bot), which, according to ChanServ, was originally created on Freenode by @eloquence on Jan 02 20:06:07 2004 (17y 20w 2d ago)!!
I'm "legoktm" on @liberachat Looking forward to chatting with people in #wikimedia, #mediawiki, #wikipedia and more :)
[NickServ] Registered : Mar 15 23:13:28 2008 (13y 9w 4d ago)joining freenode was a pretty important change in my life, got to know so many wonderful people and learned so much, it's hard to put it into words.Sad to see it go this way but looking forward to libera.chathttps://libera.chat/news/welcome-to-libera-chat
Your IRC channel can only be considered diverse once you have members whose nicks start with every letter of the alphabet.
So now matrix.org requires you to confirm that you're over 16 before you can use it. I hope this doesn't become the new reality - I got started on IRC a few years before I turned 16. :|I couldn't find any age requirement for freenode (https://freenode.net/policies).Oh, and Slack also requires…
I've recently switched from using ZNC+Textual over to Quassel. It has the same idea as a bouncer, with a "core" that runs on your server, and a "client" that you run locally. I've been using ZNC for over 2 years now, so this was a pretty big switch for me.…
