@brentdev
.. and on the other hand, you will certainly remember the time well (was that before Corona?) when, due to great egoism and the resulting loss of trust, freenode-irc became a no-go and thus destroyed for all people volunteering in free and open software #liberachat was created out of nowhere, which in turn resulted in a mass switch of all these good spirits to liberachat. This was unprecedented evidence of who the f(l)oss-fsf communities belong to mentally. Do you know a better example of positive conspiratorial and, above all, such great collective unity and clarity? Not me. This happened in no time without much talking. The good spirit called and everyone came. Well a few went to #OFTC, but even #Kali-Linux has a connection bot to liberachat because many of their fans were too quick to join libera. I have never experienced a major brain drain or should I say mind drain. The purest migration of good folks.
I don't mean to say that with what's left of #freenode there are only heartless zombies running around. My friends from PuppyLinux are still there (and also on lberachat) and are holding the fort because many Windows users are interested in #puppylinux to get started and are checking out freenode first.
You can see that so far I've only been on irc channels. Facebook x etc were never an option for me because even in their early days I foresaw that this could not have a good development for their users and for our society.

You know, I believe that the spirit here for many people is the same good spirit and I have already seen a few profiles that reinforce my belief. I think I will feel comfortable here.
Thank you for your welcome :D

#UNIX #Linux #FediVerse #FOSS #FLOSS #FSF #it'sTeaTimeFolks

@LupusMichaelis I'm no mentor for #HaikuOS (nor any coder skills), so I can't answer there, maybe you could ask around on the mailinglist or at #OFTC #haiku channel on #IRC?

@mmu_man @liberachat @matrix Meanwhile, #OFTC works just fine. I can only encourage everyone to move off of @liberachat and to #OFTC. @liberachat treating 1/4 of their users like they’re just garbage is just unacceptable, and OFTC has not shown so much spite towards their users.

@TheOuterLinux @lord Note as well that among the #OFTC network operators is Neil McGovern, the director of #Gnome. This is probably not a good force to have in the free software community: http://techrights.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation

@lord @TheOuterLinux #Libera uses MS for web hosting & they've jailed their web gateway in #cloudflare. #OFTC forces you to solve a Google #reCAPTCHA (thus #nonfreesoftware) to get a cloak -- & some channels (e.g. #gnucash) force you to register before you have a voice. So bad options all around.

@ckeen I thought you were on #OFTC?