[SaberUK]

As the maintainer of one of the more popular IRC server implementations I know a giant chunk of the Libera Chat (formerly freenode) staff pretty well and whilst we may disagree frequently on technical choices they're decent people who were appointed based on technical merit. They pretty much didn't have any say in rasengan seizing control of freenode as Christel sold out the project and lied to the other staff about what what had happened for several years. After Christel was ousted they reorganised and elected teams internally and after the network switch have developed a governance system which requires strong consensus to avoid this ever happening again.[1]

OFTC and Libera Chat aren't as different as you seem to think. There is also a lot of cooperation between the two projects which has been going on for years. Solanum is being developed as a joint project and some staff members are involved with both networks.

1: https://libera.chat/bylaws

[dijit]

Hey Saber,

Thanks for everything you do on inspircd and IRCv3, I've been using the former for my network for nearly 15 years now.

[SaberUK]

I'm glad you find my work useful. :)

[mst]

Apparently rasengan likes it too

    <@root> inpspiricd is a good project
    <@root> but we'll make it way better
    <@root> sadie is pretty good for a noob
    <@root> but obviously its time to take things serious

[SaberUK]

Yeah I heard that. It's GPLv2 licensed so he's free to use it (if he can even migrate his services database without corrupting it) but his lackies have been informed that they will be banned on sight if they try to ask for support.

[mst]

Apparently their solution was to not bother migrating the services database at all.

I ... just ... lolsob.

[robbyoconnor]

They basically just nuked the whole thing. I had my nick for over 17 years and was kind of clinging to it...just pathetic.

[IntelMiner]

But how else will that troglodyte and his minions call you a "noob"

Seriously it's 2021 who unironically still uses that term?