A deep-dive into freenode’s events
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Jesusalva_ · 2021-05-29 15:53

Maybe, but imo what was really critical are May 26th events.

Previously there was a strong hands-off policy to the point that I,
for example, never saw any action from an oper besides the occasional
K-Lining on spam bots.

On the 26th the new staff seized channels based on the topics in an
automated way without warning or manual review.

This change is what made the projects I'm in to go away from Freenode.
We prefer network ops to be hands-off, Libera Chat kept its hands-off
approach while Freenode changed it.

At this point, even if Lee was right and the former FN staff was
wrong, my projects now disagree with his modus operandi and won't come
back :-)

As they say... The benefit of doubt on how new FN management would
operate no longer exists.