Comment on What does Freenode have in common with soj.ooo ??? by dangun

Parent Post: What does Freenode have in common with soj.ooo ???

dangun · 2/9/2026, 7:24:38 PM · permalink

Thank you for bringing this up, as it is a really strong example of the bourgeois and proletariat dynamic, and how that simply doesn't work properly in contemporary society.

While the outspoken narrative devised by the libera team is, without a doubt, dramatic and fun; a simple whois lookup on the libera chat domain makes evident who brought bad intentions.  
  
That said, I understand; and that's why we designed soj.ooO in a way that addresses this issue from the outset.  I owned and continue to own freenode.  As the legal mechanism for a DAO came into existence between then and now, we were able to design soj.ooO such that the community shall collectively own it.  
  
In the case of freenode, the former freenode staff registered libera and caused some destruction to freenode in order to move users/channels to a network of which they were in control.  As can be verified in the whois dates, they registered this domain long before my name was mixed with the story (wherein, my name only appears when we were locked out of our own DNS account - a serious issue and a step taken by former freenode staff, unlawfully and intentionally).  
  
Did I take some bad steps thereafter while myself and a few others were being slandered, with verifiably false statements, by libera activists (including former freenode staff I paid for legal protection for when they were mixed in a rather far from glamorous case relating to their private activities in groups as well as some \[1\] folks who even created fake log files)?  
  
I did not.  Yet, only those who knew the truth could come to this conclusion.  The uninformed cannot, despite facts being in front of them.  This is why, for example, the masses did not realize how real pizza gate was until recently, despite the facts being in front of them for a decade now.  
  
\[1\] 
![image](https://us-lax-1.linodeobjects.com/sojooo/comments/3/1770665078749-bce9cabd46fe6238.png)
  
Exhibit \[1\] displays an example of one of those leading the attack against freenode, myself and a few others (some of the victims who stood by my side use soj.ooO today!).  This is not a parody picture nor has it been modified in any way.

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mrinfinity · 2/9/2026, 8:55:42 PM · permalink

Hmm, they stuck the broken glass between the ribs and when all was said and done, there's not even a scar.  
  
Most people don't care about the truth, they care about the story. Even then, they don't care. You know, when I got our sysadmin access to the servers we could have just left it with no opers. But, instead, the staff all resigned, sabotaged the e-mail systems and core functionalities to make freenode work, then sabotaged servers with their personal bots and scripts and tools on them (if I recall correctly). Then taunted us about it while e-mailing and using network tools to get all the projects on their side of the story; which wasn't true.  
  
It wasn't us that handled everything, it was every top IRC operator from every IRC network coming in to help fix and stabilize the systems. I worked 20 hours a day on recovering everything and ensuring all the systems were stable, functional, then moved it all over to a new infrastructure as the sponsors all dropped off as well.  
  
We did everything fair, honest, by the books. I was on all of those calls, I listened to @dangun speak honestly and want the best decision for everybody, the intention was to only discuss a decentralized system and get feedback, the warnings to us were 'back off, or the staff will riot against you.' - We had to sit back and say nothing.  
  
They then locked the company out of the domain and added 2fa to it.  
  
The pdf file Andrew wrote about what actually happened, is what actually happened.  
  
I was taking care of my dying father and helped my mother beat cancer while trying to hold it together when all of this happened. That's a truth people don't know about.  
  
In all of these years maybe only a few people checked in to see how I was doing, and I had to delete a version of myself that carried the weight of the world, and accept that people would only ever see the narrative of what's in their head about me. About us, my friends, the things I worked for and towards.  
  
I only have questions that I let go of, one of them was why make everybody hate us, me, and others, I have theories but in the end it doesn't matter. I sat there, alone with my thoughts for years.  
  
All I can say is, for now, maybe we can talk about it in the future:  
  
I forgive them, and I earned the ability to say that, and to say that I forgive myself for the myriad of things I've done wrong.  
  
Infact, still to do this day I've never said anything, and if anybody from those times did reach out to me all I'd say now is: Look me in the eyes in front of everybody and tell me, to my face, that you forgive yourselves. Not online, in person.  
  
What does freenode and sojooo have in common? Well, I don't have to answer that question for anybody.

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