statement regarding the recent freenode/libera split
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% Statement regarding the recent freenode/libera split
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% 20 May 2021
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Introduction
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Libreboot has long used Freenode for providing IRC chatrooms. Freenode is one
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of the most popular IRC networks, and one of the oldest. Recently, there has
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been some controversy about its leader, Andrew Lee, and some staff members have
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quit to form a new network named Libera. I want everyone to know: I'm completely
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neutral about the whole thing. I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
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I wish success to both Freenode *and* Libera.
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Libreboot now has a `#libreboot` IRC channel on both the Freenode *and* Libera
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networks. The Libera one is to be considered *unofficial*, but it *is* owned
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and operated by myself at the present time. I use the same `leah` nick on both
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networks. The only reason I'm there right now is to protect the names of my
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projects, and also to protect myself, so that someone cannot impersonate me or
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my projects.
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Plans for self-hosted IRC
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I've had a plan on the TODO for a very long time, to self-host an IRC server at
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`irc.libreboot.org`. I've concluded that the best decision for Libreboot would
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be for me to now press ahead with this plan. The channels on Freenode and
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Libera will remain open, but the self-hosted one will become the official
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channel.
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I have nothing against Freenode *or* Libera, but I would like to have more
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control over my infrastructure. My next target is Git; I will set up a Git
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repository, mailing list and (very likely) a SourceHut instance directly on
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`git.libreboot.org`. However, self-hosted Git is not currently a high priority
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due to the decentralized nature of Git.
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About the Freenode controversies
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I was offline for several days. I came online again on 20 May 2021, which was
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apparently a whole day after the events transpired. What I can gather is this:
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* Andrew Lee, who owns Freenode, wants to run things his way
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* Freenode staff were unhappy, because Andrew appointed new staff members
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instead
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* Those staffers who disagreed with Andrew's leadership have left and now run
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the Libera IRC network
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* Freenode will now have new staff members, under Andrew's guidance
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Basically, the most natural thing for a Free Software organization is currently
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in progress: someone is unhappy, so they made a fork, and the people left behind
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now get to run things however they like. The result? Now there are two
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organisations, who can both conduct themselves without tension or restraint.
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Is that a bad thing?
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Relationships, professional or otherwise, break down all the time. It's life.
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However, I do hope that peace can be restored, and that all sides can begin to
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cooperate once things calm down. *We* are all in the same fight, namely, the
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Free Software movement!
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Life moves on very quickly indeed. I'm here to tell you: Freenode is not the
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world, and neither is Libera. Neither will `irc.libreboot.org` be. Neither is
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OFTC. Neither is rizon. Neither is snoonet. Neither is EFnet. Neither is that
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weird IRC server you found one day on a forum. IRC is IRC. It can sometimes be
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a very crazy and chaotic place.
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Anyway, yeah. That's all for now. I really don't have much to say. The rest
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of this article will link to external resources, where you can learn more about
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the recent events. I only wanted to tell everyone how *I* feel, so that I can
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put this issue to rest. I believe that I have now done this!
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Learn more about recent chaos
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I was going to write more, but I don't think it's needed. Instead, you can
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simply refer to the following pages and make up your own mind. I'm only
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linking them here so that people have an idea as to what I'm talking about.
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I value my neutrality, so I will not make any statement either way about the
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contents of these articles. I haven't read them, precisely because I don't care
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but I know you will want to read them, if you're interested enough to read this
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article. So here they are!
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News articles
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Every link below will work with JavaScript turned off, but some of them are
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running non-free JavaScript if you have JavaScript turned on. I assume you
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already have LibreJS installed anyway, if you care about that.
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The *following* news articles are from media outlets and other people, not from
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the people in Freenode and Libera. however, those people also wrote articles
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and they are linked in the next sections on this page.
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First though, read these articles:
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* <https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover>
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* <http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/freenode-and-cancel-culture/>
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* <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Free-Software-Exits-Freenode>
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* <https://boingboing.net/2021/05/19/freenode-irc-staff-quit-after-new-owner-seizes-control.html>
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* <https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-staff-exodus-new-network/>
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* <https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resigns/>
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Andrew Lee's article
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Here is Andrew's article:
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<https://freenode.net/news/freenode-is-foss>
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I also spotted this article, which seems to be from Andrew aswell:
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<https://gist.githubusercontent.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e4075d2d48/raw/4f11b836a0705118733de5ba1b181b50c15201b2/freenode.txt>
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From Libera (former freenode) staff
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The following articles are from those individuals who recently resigned from
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their posts at Freenode, and moved over to Libera IRC instead.
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NOTE: for github-hosted links, I've linked to the `raw` pages, because these
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pages are plain text and therefore do not force you to run any non-free
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JavaScript code.
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* Archive link, because this staff member's article was on the index page, which
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will obviously change at some point:
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<http://web.archive.org/web/20210519235343/https://www.kline.sh/> (archive
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from 19 May 2021)
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* Fuchs' article: <https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt> - one could
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say that Freenode no longer has any fuchs to give!
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* Aaron Jone's article:
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<https://gist.githubusercontent.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bdd66b8f491/raw/d210ebc21f8d967b8cce25a75fcdc721f8acfe9a/freenode-resign-letter.txt>
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* jess's article: <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jesopo/45a3e9cdbe517dc55e6058eb43b00ed9/raw/7972a595255560f23d9a61bb7c9f4e696dce1db4/00-freenode.txt>
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* Marco d'ltri's article: <https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461>
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* Ed Kellett's article: <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/edk0/478fb4351bc3ba458288d6878032669d/raw/5a2b712c2073b3d357c83a97d0f2678da290e5ec/resignation.md>
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* Emīls Piņķis's article <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pinkisemils/39d4ded8b1639b6f39dcab15618649f5/raw/89e3f6f1088176c03e623b01d70fe760e00811c3/resignation.md>
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* JonathanD82's article: <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/JonathanD82/6518b93708e0aaf4b8f92c8e7200816d/raw/70b20cfb8b599216e7702f013282eeb8c4288c24/gistfile1.txt>
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* mniip's article: <https://mniip.com/freenode.txt>
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* Svante Bengtson's article: <https://swantzter.se/freenode-resignation/>
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* This article is in French: <https://coevoet.fr/freenode.html>
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