Subj : Re: freenode and libera.chat (was: IRC Door)
To   : Oli
From : tallship
Date : Mon May 31 2021 08:54 pm

On 31 May 2021, Oli said the following...
 
 Ol> apam wrote (2021-05-31):
 Ol> 
 Ol>  >> freenode is still there, but Andrew Lee (the new 'owner') is trying
 Ol>  >> his best to cancel itself and running the network into the ground
 Ol>  >> fast:

The damage to freenode's credibility is done. ALL of the major projects, like
Wikipedia, The BSDs and Linux distros, most languages and GNU tools like
Curl, etc., have all moved over to Libera.Chat.

Regardless of what the perception was last week when this all blew up on the
20th, What Lee did when he hijacked hundreds of channels forever sullied his
reputation, and I don't believe that anything short of him turning it over to
some other benevolent provider would return confidence in the network.
Everyone that was trusted to run the network for the past couple of decades
is on Libera staff now.

https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/

 Ol> 
 Ol>  a> Also looked at libera.chat, but was unsure, seemed like I'd have to
 Ol>  a> register the channel or something?
 Ol> 
 Ol> I thought that too, but it is possible to just join a channel and create
 Ol> it. Registering via ChanServ or a Project / Community is optional.

Yes you can just do a /join #yourchannelname and be done with it, unless you
want to protect the channel, topic, and have you as the founder/chanop
whenever you enter it, in which case you need to take a few seconds to
register the channel to your registered Nick - which takes about two minutes
to do itself.

 Ol> Running your own 
 Ol> IRC server might be easier though ;).
 Ol> 

I recommend Ergo.Chat I can't even begin to enumerate all of the great
features, including integrated services, it keeps histories so when you
reconnect it's all there, and many other features.

It takes just a few minutes to install too, and is all in one neat little
executable file, written in Go.

https://github.com/ergochat/ergo

I hope that helps :)

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