On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 6:10 PM Michael Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tor simply introduce too much chance of abuse. If people didn't abuse > it, it wouldn't be blocked. >
Yeah, as much as I love it, this service obviously is going to be abused, especially for something like IRC. Really though the main reason they went with Libera was that it was a much simpler move. Libera was basically feature-complete, while OFTC lacks namespaces and channel management features. They're looking to change that, but Libera was a drop-in replacement. Gentoo has a LOT of IRC channels and managing them all would be painful on OFTC. You also have the issue of nick collisions. Having everybody change nicks would be inconvenient, and chances are there would be collisions across the networks. A Gentoo dev can't very well expect somebody on OFTC to give up their nick that they were using perhaps for many years. Libera was new so collisions were unlikely unless it was intentional abuse. We did have a case of that, but the Libera admins were happy to fix that (only one case I've heard of and it was obvious abuse with many Gentoo nicks being registered to one person). There was also some discussion about moving to something other than IRC as a primary communications medium. The general sense was that this was going to be more controversial, that alternatives had some issues, and again Libera was an easy drop-in replacement. Supporting some other network or technology down the road is always something that could happen, either as an alternative or primary home. However, the general sense was that it would make more sense to just consider that and transition in a more orderly way down the road. -- Rich
