Freenode BBS

bbs.freenode.net

11 points·rasengan··7 comments

So basically this is Hacker News but where rasengan can ban the people who are not being sufficiently idolatrous towards him?

It's a crying shame how one of the oldest surviving FLOSS community resources has been turned into a personal playground for an ancap blowhard who can't accept that no matter the amount of money he throws around it won't get people to like him.

The top post being a link to pissnet, the tower of piss, is kinda funny.

Don't worry, it'll be deleted soon

I wonder what voting does, because right now posts seem to be in order of newest first, regardless of votes.

what happened on freenode recently? I see everyone leaving for libera.chat

rasengan took it over, fucked up multiple times since, basically. This is why Libera is what freenode was, and the current freenode is just rasengan's.

rasengan (author of this post) bought the network for money (it's not clear what he actually bought, but he has enough lawyers to intimidate the other volunteers for whatever he wanted). He basically decided it was his way or the highway, and his way included rules like "thou shalt not leave freenode for another network" which of course made everyone immediately leave freenode for another network because nobody wants to be using a vendor that tries to prevent you from leaving.

This BBS thing seems to demonstrate it pretty well actually. Was anyone asking for freenode to have a hacker news clone? Don't think so. Is it even useful? Remains to be seen. Will it stay? Nobody knows. All we know for now is freenode is now the host for whatever rasengan feels like at the moment. Again, it seems that people don't really want to be on that kind of platform.

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