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Re:Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migr... by luke2m on Sunday June 13, 2021 @05:12PM (#27496536)
The difference is that

* IRC is interoperable and easy to change servers, unlike apps with proprietary protocols. If Yahoo started doing horrible things with their email, then people who notice would switch to GMail or another host.

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Re:Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migr... by codetrotter on Sunday June 13, 2021 @05:33PM (#27496716)
On a related note I wonder if many people ended up migrating to Discord instead of to another IRC network.

For example the SerenityOS project used to advertise on their site that they had a channel on freenode but now they link a Discord instead.

http://serenityos.org/

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Re:Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migr... by luke2m on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:00PM (#27496942)
That’s a good point. Honestly, if I had a popular open source project right now, I would have matrix bridged to discord and maybe irc if people asked for it.
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