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Re:Happy Birthday, Libera Chat by RL_Quine on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:23AM (#31431348)
It's had a bunch of guises as a website. For a while it was a blog filled with shouting about how removing the administrators will allow for real Free Speech and the future of everything will be freenode (and cryptocurrency, please buy our shitcoin maybe).

https://web.archive.org/web/20210912070004/https://freenode....

It was turned into a Free Speech reddit clone for a bit, which nobody used.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220402191330/https://freenode....

It's now a wiki which refers to the network as "assmode" and implores you to instead join "pissnet" run by the Impeerial Family.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220517234626/https://freenode....

Sort of the death knell of desperately trying to form a community.

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Re:Happy Birthday, Libera Chat by 1propionyl on Thursday May 19, 2022 @11:57AM (#31436320)
Someone was editing that wiki, but to be clear Pissnet is not affiliated with Freenode, though it was born from its collapse. It is a small but active community, and has a couple hundred servers.

https://shitposting.space/network

It's very hard to explain, but it is a real network that currently operates as an anarchic sandbox for doing weird things with IRC software/protocols and just generally goofing around.

Pretty much every single active user is a netadmin. It's the network where you register a nick by linking your own server.

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