THE RECENT IRC wars have done no good to anyone (except perhaps enemies of IRC, like proprietary software surveillance capitalists -- large firms which harvest personal/business data, sometimes very sensitive data, using IRC copycats; Salesforce/Slack and Microsoft are among those).

"Earlier today, at around 5AM and again at around 9AM we came under DDOS attacks, so anything we can do to facilitate contingencies would go a long way in the long run."We don't want to participate in this self-harming war, so instead we've taken steps (as planned a year ago) to become more self-hosted for purposes of communication. But since almost everybody is still in Freenode we're not leaving Freenode but instead complementing it with something that we can control and govern. The video above explains how we've done that; in the meantime, amid some further testing there's a state of flux and daily IRC logs contain many duplicates. Once the bridges settle we'll eliminate those duplicates. The way things are at the moment, no matter if one network goes down for whatever reason, we should still be able to communicate using the other network, so fault tolerance was certainly improved. Earlier today, at around 5AM and again at around 9AM we came under DDOS attacks, so anything we can do to facilitate contingencies would go a long way in the long run. Our custom-made DDOS protection programs continue to improve. In the case of IRC, if one network comes under attack, we can use the other instead. ⬆