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List of projects and channels that have left or stayed on Freenode
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Note: due to volume, this has been moved to https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

Projects and channels that have left Freenode

This is a (necessarily incomplete) list of projects and channels that have decided to permanently move out of Freenode to https://libera.chat (unless stated otherwise). Please reach out below or on IRC if there's additions or corrections.

Sources are mostly comments I've seen on HN, various IRC channels and web searches.

Projects and channels that have stayed on Freenode

More difficult to find are projects that have stayed, please let me know.

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  • #freenode (duh)
@mgorny
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mgorny commented May 30, 2021

PyPy has now moved officially and dropped freenode: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2021/05/pypy-irc-moves-to-libera-chat.html

@griwes
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griwes commented May 30, 2021

The C++ community channels, as well as #osdev, have also moved.

@fracturedprism
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The Python link leads to the Rockbox site.

@siraben
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siraben commented May 31, 2021

Thank you all, I will go through the gist comments to see what I have missed, but because of the sheer volume of suggestions I am creating a repo at https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

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scherrey commented May 31, 2021 •
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Why does a few ops deciding to take their ball and move to another network mean that a "channel has moved"? The very premise is nonsense and absurd. Unless it's a trademarked/commercial branded channel, every channel remains on freenode and can adopt new ops to manage the community that decides to remain. This is all a bunch of posturing and virtue signaling that does nothing except damage the communities various parties purport to be supporting. Really sad that people are so interested in being divisive rather than actually work together.

#forth - for which I am an op - remains on freenode where it has grown from a dead channel for about a decade to something extremely valuable to the Forth community in the last few years. We have also has added a bridge to the new network as we care about Forth and not political/internal squabbles between operators and their employees. So long as federation with other networks appears beneficial to the Forther community we will continue to do so and are open to other networks as well.

If people were more focused on their communities than victimhood and divisiveness we wouldn't have this mess in the first place. Perhaps people should step back and really consider the real outcome potential of their actions and words before continuing this nonsense.

@jernejs
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jernejs commented May 31, 2021

Reddit's /r/sysadmin IRC channel also moved to Libera.

@MTRNord
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MTRNord commented Jun 4, 2021

Why does a few ops deciding to take their ball and move to another network mean that a "channel has moved"? The very premise is nonsense and absurd. Unless it's a trademarked/commercial branded channel, every channel remains on freenode and can adopt new ops to manage the community that decides to remain. This is all a bunch of posturing and virtue signaling that does nothing except damage the communities various parties purport to be supporting. Really sad that people are so interested in being divisive rather than actually work together.

Because taking someone else's channel is not only an asshole move but also misleading to newcomers. Think about it.

Sincerely a User

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