They see us as trying to fracture their community, even though these are our communities.
Ironically, by forcing us to keep the freenode channels open, they are fracturing our communities. Or, at least they are for me, because I'm not going to back down and move the official one for my project back from Libera. I might have done if they had acted responsibly, but taking the channel away with no notice, convinces me that these are not people I want to rely on in any capacity.
I am grateful to freenode for the platform it has provided to this point, and I thank all of the volunteers who kept it running.
Ironically, by forcing us to keep the freenode channels open, they are fracturing our communities. Or, at least they are for me, because I'm not going to back down and move the official one for my project back from Libera. I might have done if they had acted responsibly, but taking the channel away with no notice, convinces me that these are not people I want to rely on in any capacity.
I am grateful to freenode for the platform it has provided to this point, and I thank all of the volunteers who kept it running.