On Friday, May 21st, 2021 at 1:49 AM, Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com wrote:
After considering Libera and OFTC as options, the board settled on recommending OFTC. The primary reason for this is because OFTC is associated with our parent foundation SPI, and has a long and well known history of involvement with the open source community. As well, the board believes OFTC's current Governance model is a lot more clear then Libera's.
I'd personally prefer Libera Chat. They don't yet have a published formal governance model, but I hope this will come soon. As the former Freenode staff, I trust them to make sure mistakes from the past won't be repeated.
Apart from politics, Libera also offers a more modern feature set. This can ease daily usage, with features such as reliable authentication, account tracking, and many other IRC protocol improvements. OFTC has plans to eventually migrate to Solanum, but they don't have the time to do it for now.
For reference, on OFTC:
CAP LS 302 :kinetic.oftc.net CAP * LS :multi-prefix
And on Libera:
CAP LS 302 :ruthenium.libera.chat CAP * LS :account-notify away-notify chghost extended-join multi-prefix sasl=PLAIN,ECDSA-NIST256P-CHALLENGE,EXTERNAL tls userhost-in-names account-tag cap-notify echo-message solanum.chat/identify-msg solanum.chat/realhost