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A short-cycled policy update to https://freenode.net/policies and a blog post espousing love and FOSS by Lee https://freenode.net/news/for-foss ("President freenode limited") feels hollow and vindictive.

Goodbye, whatever open culture remained in Freenode.

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The tone of that blog post is a bit unhinged. Taking a break to talk about cancel culture, and the definitely-real hundreds of complaints Lee has received about it...

If you think that's unhinged...

https://www.irc.com/lets-take-irc-further

It's sad that he destroyed the very thing he cherished above everything else. That is, if he is telling the truth.

I do believe he was truthful about his intentions. But his ego has gotten in the way of realizing that his approach is wrong, and is causing harm.

I suspect that he is. It is pretty sad to see delusional people like this.

> I will do unto others as I would like done to myself.

Too bad he didn't follow through on this statement.

as well as the "tens of thousands of messages of love and support we have received". So at least 20,000 people took the time to write a message of support for an irc network that has 60k members, by their own count

It could have just been one spambot, they don't say from how many users the messages came.

we've received tens of thousands of messages of support. thanks, gary!

They just moved to a different domain name.

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