This is some tasty IRC drama

How about that freenode drama?

https://ariadne.space/2021/05/20/the-whole-freenode-kerfluffle/ if you’re out of the loop.

From: Tiko at 2021-05-20 22:25:21
classic IRC takeover situation, rare to see in tyol 2021
nice

Unlike most IRC takeovers, this involves money, which is a nice twist.

Freenode is now hijacking channels that have indicated that they’re moving to Libre Chat:

https://lwn.net/Articles/857252/

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kline/106299403921451814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628

Someone who owns Freenode but who doesn’t understand Freenode.

New empire territory just dropped: https://freenode.net/news/on-power-to-the-people

Officially become digital territory of the Joseon Empire √

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Joseon (also transcribed as Chosŏn, Korean: 대조선국; 大朝鮮國, lit. 'Great Joseon') was a Korean dynastic kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries.[13] It was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea.[14] It was founded by Yi Seong-gye in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in October 1897.

Kinda sounds like a regression to me.

Sorry, I keep cracking up at “power to the people but also I’m using my questionable lineage to 19th century Korean royalty to extend their territory in cyberspace as the crown prince of a dead empire”.

He actually styled himself as HIH - His Imperial Highness, lol