The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)

[Christian]

As an update: 

last night, new freenode staff seized control over the linux, free software 
foundation and python channels, banning long term members on the way to do so.

https://twitter.com/marklu/status/1403956182524387330
https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1403941542532952067
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html

The rule that single-# channels are official is no longer in place, and people 
not endorsed by FSF were granted operator status in the FSF channel.

Even though I know that we can't speed up the Matrix migration, I highly 
recommend we cut ties with freenode as soon as possible, and I expect us to be 
screwed over during the migration as well, so expect some turbulence. 

Kind regards, 

Christian