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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should we switch IRC client defaults off Freenode?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:03:04
Message-Id: e82734655167acf1fea4334c45e7eb493dc4cfd7.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should we switch IRC client defaults off Freenode? by Rich Freeman
1 On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 11:57 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:42 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > What is the point you're making? If GF decides to kick you from Gentoo,
5 > > will you also claim that it was their legal right?
6 > >
7 >
8 > IMO the lesson to be learned here is that we ought to design Gentoo in
9 > such a way that if the GF kicks us all from Gentoo, it isn't a big
10 > deal at all. The reason everybody is all upset is that the Freenode
11 > change WAS a big deal and has been difficult to work through.
12 > Obviously it wasn't THAT big of a problem, but ideally we should be
13 > more resilient and just take things like this in stride.
14 >
15 > People get deplatformed all the time these days, often from multiple
16 > platforms at the same time. Anybody sane doing anything online should
17 > just expect it to happen to them at some point.
18 >
19
20 Just because something is happening 'all the time these days', it
21 doesn't mean we have to justify it. if you start justifying bad things
22 like this, how are things supposed to get better?
23
24 --
25 Best regards,
26 Michał Górny