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Maybe this is all for the better. Helping to kill off what the community no longer wants.

I remember the XFree86 licensing controversy of 2004. That change effectively killed XFree86, gave rise to X.org, and new life to the world of open source X11.

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This will probably just kill IRC entirely. Freenode was keeping IRC alive and now that it has fractured, there will be little reason not to use Matrix or Discord as the new wave of developers do not care that you can't talk on Matrix via netcat.

well there's also oftc and hackint

Matterbridge (and probably similar) exists. If some old farts (myself included) want to keep using irc hosting your own isn't bad, and having a bridge between that (and other services/protocols) and discord enables everyone to use whatever client they want. At least that's what I'm doing for a few groups.

I would bet that the biggest irc network is twitch, although that is a very different kind of community than what is usually associated with irc.

Eh, no. Libera.chat is doing it well.

Hmm..

    sed -i 's/freenode.net/libera.chat/' .irssi/config
    irssi

Switching is too easy.

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