[Mesa-dev] Freenode fallout

[Wladislav Artsimovich]

Indeed, a lot of communities are moving to Libera. However, 
centralization is what caused the mess with freenode in the first place, 
thus communities spreading to different services may not be such a bad 
idea. As long as the channels themselves are not split, that is.

On 21/05/2021 15:33, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Friday, May 21st, 2021 at 1:49 AM, Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> After considering Libera and OFTC as options, the board settled on
>> recommending OFTC. The primary reason for this is because OFTC is
>> associated with our parent foundation SPI, and has a long and well known
>> history of involvement with the open source community. As well, the
>> board believes OFTC's current Governance model is a lot more clear then
>> Libera's.
> I'd personally prefer Libera Chat. They don't yet have a published
> formal governance model, but I hope this will come soon. As the former
> Freenode staff, I trust them to make sure mistakes from the past won't
> be repeated.
>
> Apart from politics, Libera also offers a more modern feature set. This
> can ease daily usage, with features such as reliable authentication,
> account tracking, and many other IRC protocol improvements. OFTC has
> plans to eventually migrate to Solanum, but they don't have the time to
> do it for now.
>
> For reference, on OFTC:
>
>      CAP LS 302
>      :kinetic.oftc.net CAP * LS :multi-prefix
>
> And on Libera:
>
>      CAP LS 302
>      :ruthenium.libera.chat CAP * LS :account-notify away-notify chghost extended-join multi-prefix sasl=PLAIN,ECDSA-NIST256P-CHALLENGE,EXTERNAL tls userhost-in-names account-tag cap-notify echo-message solanum.chat/identify-msg solanum.chat/realhost
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