Gregory's Server@ripienaar @miah Freenode isn't the counter. Because of all the reasons above, people could upsticks and leave it, which they cannot do in other walled chat networks.
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 @ripienaar @miah I think being able to keep the client you were using before, with all it's customizations, and then to move to an environment that is functionally how it was before is much better than "We were using Discord, and we moved to Teams" @Baggypants @miah Convenient yes. Many migrated elsewhere to walled gardens and it was fine also. @ripienaar @miah "fine" is a low bar. What we don't have is any figures for how many people just left the community they were in because of the change. I would hope that retention would be higher for people migrating irc to irc verses irc to some other client. @Baggypants @miah I just left IRC completely, the channels I ran mostly died and communities are vibrant on slack instead. (I was a PROLIFIC user for decades since mid 90s, highest contributor in some of the largest Freenode channels for years running etc, just as an aside its not like it was nothing for me) @ripienaar @miah Sure, but if a community I was in moved to slack, I wouldn't have followed it. |
@Baggypants @miah they absolutely can leave any walled garden for another or an open alternative.
There wasn’t some magical migration, no history was kept, nicks had to be reclaimed. It’s essentially start from scratch somewhere else.
The fact that it happened to use the same protocol as the previous network was coincidental and convenient but not an enabling factor.