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Re:Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migr... by kemayo on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:43PM (#27496256)
The Libera users count is probably decently representative of recently-active people, just because they'd have had to take deliberate action to sign in there within the last month.

The Freenode numbers, though...

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Re:Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migr... by pedrocr on Sunday June 13, 2021 @05:00PM (#27496413)
That can be seen in the volume numbers. Libera seems to already have a lot more chat volume even though it still has only 2/3 of the users.
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Re:Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migr... by codetrotter on Sunday June 13, 2021 @05:28PM (#27496676)
I used to have a detached screen with irssi sitting on a server for a very long time after I actually had stopped checking in on it.

The only reason it's not still running is because eventually the server that I had the detached screen sitting on was decommissioned.

(Ok, admittedly it was probably rebooted a couple of times between that I stopped attaching my screen session and when it was decommissioned. But the server used to be up for hundreds of days at a time without reboots so the point still stands that I "was" on IRC for a long while even after I had stopped "being" on IRC. I don't even remember anymore if I was connected to freenode or IRCnet or both though.)

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