@miah @ripienaar in fact I'd say that the Freenode/Libera...

@miah @ripienaar in fact I'd say that the Freenode/Libera story is an enormous argument *for* IRC: some shitheel took over the domain name for a beloved network? The operators who still have the trust of the community can set up new underpinnings in hours and support 30,000+ active users switching over in days, and still spend so little on infra costs¹ that even a donations-only income is enough to support paying moderators.

That resiliency is impossible... except.

¹: https://libera.chat/annual-reports/

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Billy Smith

@gnomon @miah @ripienaar

This is what happened with the London Hackspace IRC channels.

One of the moderators set up another parallel service, and the transition took place easily. :D

Open Protocols for the Win! :D

20 June at 19:15 | Open on social.coop

Björn

@gnomon exactly.
For example because Discord works so good right now for many doesn't mean they can't just lock the whole thing don't and squeeze the money out of it's user's.

21 June at 20:10 | Open on mastodon.social