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irssi connect banner:

22:37 -!- There are 75 users and 65801 invisible on 41 servers
22:37 -!- 18 IRC Operators online
22:37 -!- 21 unknown connection(s)
22:37 -!- 37811 channels formed
22:37 -!- I have 5023 clients and 1 servers
22:37 -!- 5023 6593 Current local users 5023, max 6593
22:37 -!- 65876 84899 Current global users 65876, max 84899
22:37 -!- Highest connection count: 6594 (6593 clients) (496313 connections received)

Contrast #Liberanet

22:39 -!- There are 50 users and 21232 invisible on 21 servers
22:39 -!- 34 IRC Operators online
22:39 -!- 16264 channels formed
22:39 -!- I have 2128 clients and 1 servers
22:39 -!- 2128 2214 Current local users 2128, max 2214
22:39 -!- 21282 21832 Current global users 21282, max 21832
22:39 -!- Highest connection count: 2215 (2214 clients) (20944 connections received)

Freenode still seems to have about 3x the user count of Libera.

But that's less than a week in.

What I'm looking for right now is:

• A good overview of the sitution and what's happened. I'd like the best arguments from each side, though presumably Freenode's recent status should be suitable for theirs.
• A list of affected / migrated channels.
• If possible, a good backgrounder on what IRC is and why it matters / what its past role has been.
• The Freenode history. (I'm aware of a fair bit of it going back to lilo, though I've not been active on the network for about 15 years. I do stop by from time to time, or at least did until the past few weeks --- so yes, I've got a dog in this hunt).

A summary of status reports / developments / news coverage if possible.

(I'm doing most of my initial mining from Hacker News submissions.)

Thanks.

#Freenode #Liberanet #Plexodus