On Wed, 19 May 2021 19:31:09 +0300 Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> Hi. > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:04:51PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > There's currently a network wide mass exodus from Freenode going on > > > today after apparently Freenode was sold to some bitcoin spammers. > > > > Wow - I just saw this: > > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/856543/ > > > > But it didn't mention Bitcoin spammers ;) > > LWN is known to simplify things. Here's some words from the former They are? I usually find their coverage pretty good. In any event, in this case the piece was barely a paragraph, just noting the existence of serious problems and so on, and linking to various places. > freenode staff: > > https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461 I suppose Marco is a serious guy, but it's hard to take seriously a statement that refers (without sourcing) to one's antagonist as "a Trumpian wannabe korean royalty bitcoins millionaire." I have no idea what that is, and spam isn't mentioned. Celejar