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href="/wiki/File:Libera_Chat_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Libera_Chat_Logo.svg/150px-Libera_Chat_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Libera_Chat_Logo.svg/225px-Libera_Chat_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Libera_Chat_Logo.svg/300px-Libera_Chat_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="434" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">19 May 2021<span class="noprint">; 3 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">19 May 2021</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Website URL</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://libera.chat/">libera<wbr />.chat</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Primary DNS</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697">ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Average users</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://netsplit.de/networks/Libera.Chat/">34,239</a> <span class="nowrap">(02 June 2024</span>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Average channels</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://netsplit.de/networks/Libera.Chat/">23,141</a> <span class="nowrap">(02 June 2024)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Content/subject</th><td class="infobox-data">Public / unrestricted</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Libera Chat</b>, stylized as <b>Libera.Chat</b>, is an <a href="/wiki/IRC_network" class="mw-redirect" title="IRC network">IRC network</a> for <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software" title="Free and open-source software">free and open-source software</a> projects. It was founded on 19 May 2021<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by former <a href="/wiki/Freenode" title="Freenode">Freenode</a> staff members, after Freenode was taken over by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(entrepreneur)" title="Andrew Lee (entrepreneur)">Andrew Lee</a>, founder of <a href="/wiki/Private_Internet_Access" title="Private Internet Access">Private Internet Access</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ars_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Libera_Chat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Freenode">Freenode</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Libera_Chat&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Freenode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_conflict" title="Freenode">Freenode § Ownership change and conflict</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png/255px-IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png" decoding="async" width="255" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png/383px-IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png/510px-IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>A large proportion of Freenode's users migrated to Libera.Chat, when Freenode's owner changed.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2017, Christel Dahlskjaer, then the head of staff at Freenode, incorporated a new company called Freenode Limited and transferred ownership to technology entrepreneur <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(entrepreneur)" title="Andrew Lee (entrepreneur)">Andrew Lee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hackaday20212_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hackaday20212-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2021, Dahlskjaer added the logo of Shells, a company co-founded by Lee, to the Freenode website.<sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following criticism from staff, Dahlskjaer resigned from the leadership of Freenode,<sup id="cite_ref-hackaday20212_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hackaday20212-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Freenode staff elected Tom Wesley as the new head of staff. Lee allegedly removed a blog post explaining the leadership changes and, on 11 May, appointed a new person to oversee the Freenode infrastructure.<sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Freenode staff members resigned <a href="/wiki/En_masse" class="mw-redirect" title="En masse">en masse</a>, and some published statements outlining their view of what happened and claiming that Lee had been applying legal pressure to Wesley.<sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee denied these claims, and said that he had provided Freenode with millions of dollars and was entitled to Freenode's servers as the owner of Freenode Limited.<sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hackaday20212_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hackaday20212-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee also accused Wesley of harassing Dahlskjaer and of attempting a "hostile takeover."<sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-register20212_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-register20212-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hackaday20212_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hackaday20212-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Libera_Chat">Libera Chat</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Libera_Chat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Libera Chat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Libera_Chat_KiwiIRC_web_client_chat_screenshot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Libera_Chat_KiwiIRC_web_client_chat_screenshot.png/220px-Libera_Chat_KiwiIRC_web_client_chat_screenshot.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Libera_Chat_KiwiIRC_web_client_chat_screenshot.png/330px-Libera_Chat_KiwiIRC_web_client_chat_screenshot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Libera_Chat_KiwiIRC_web_client_chat_screenshot.png/440px-Libera_Chat_KiwiIRC_web_client_chat_screenshot.png 2x" data-file-width="1679" data-file-height="912" /></a><figcaption>Libera Chat web client (based on KiwiIRC)</figcaption></figure> <p>After resigning from Freenode, the former staff created Libera Chat on 19 May 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice2_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They have described the network as a successor to Freenode, which they intend to focus around "free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours".<sup id="cite_ref-hackaday20212_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hackaday20212-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many major projects like <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a>, <a href="/wiki/FrOSCon" title="FrOSCon">FrOSCon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fedora_Linux" title="Fedora Linux">Fedora</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ubuntu" title="Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gentoo_Linux" title="Gentoo Linux">Gentoo</a>, <a href="/wiki/FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation" title="Free Software Foundation">Free Software Foundation</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_movement" title="Wikimedia movement">Wikimedia</a> have since moved their channels from Freenode to Libera Chat and to other IRC networks.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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