Freenode co-opted to promote ICO scam
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For me, the spamwave was the first I heard of it, so freenode doesn't appear to be very successful in the "promoting" the supposedly do, and the delivery method makes the criticism fairly hard to take seriously without looking into it much: Why should I listen to them?
The author of the blog post is heavily involved in the cryptocurrency scheme she is promoting. (Which makes sense, given it's her employer behind it!)
Andrew Lee (Christels boss at LTM), who controls a majority of the votes for freenode is one of the people behind handshake.
I think it's fair to say freenode has been co-opted, after all, since the acquisition, they've suddenly started posting promotional materials for a cryptocurrency scheme operated by their new owners.
It's odd they couldn't find a staff member who isn't involved in the handshake cryptocurrency scheme to write this blog post.
Any FOSS projects affiliated with freenode should be seriously concerned about this.
The "coin drop" thing seems kind of bad, but I'll wait and see how they handle it, as with anything related to the acquisition. It's relatively easy to jump for us when necessary, see little reason for now.
Gotta say, I'm biased against actors that forced me and friends to spend noticeable time on spam defense for our channels in the past few days, and started with truly disgusting methods (assuming it's the same).