hi. i personally think gentoo should've gone to OFTC instead of libera, because:
- OFTC is the true libera, thanks to its better tor support, which is not surprising as it is the home of the tor project. - OFTC has more users at the moment, and is specifically designed for FOSS projects. - OFTC is older than libera, with less problems to solve. despite libera being called after liberty in latin, its tor support is hypocritical, as it requires registering SASL over an un-tor-ed connection, hence revealing your IP address, which defeats the whole point of tor (hiding your IP address). OFTC, on the other hand, is the home of the tor project, and has best tor support. so, in a sense, OFTC is the true libera. the only reason that i can think of that would explain why a group of people would create libera, is because their /hobby/ is to maintain IRC servers. i'm not for freenode either. the latest move was unacceptable, and it's good that people started leaving freenode, to show the new owners that while they can purchase a bunch of servers and domain names, they cannot purchase people. so i like that this freenode drama happened. but i dislike that we solved it by creating libera. i think we should've solved it by going the simpler solution: go to what already exists, and already has more liberty (more tor friendliness): OFTC. but, what happened is that we -instead- went to the freenode copy-cat, with the same hypocritical tor support, aka libera, which is as far away from liberty as freenode was away from free. while this subject is still warm and in the making, i recommend gentoo to change its opinion ans switch to the OFTC. rgrds, cm.
