> If you went on to some message board and posted hey come to my message board we're over there. Even though the message board makes no profit, that is still someone's project and they will not take kindy to taking their userbase and will delete the message.
Let's not pretend that this is normal. I can freely mention https://lobste.rs on HN and my comment is not going to be deleted or flagged even though lobsters is a directly competing message board, as long as my mention is relevant to the discussion. This was a case of channels being taken over for merely mentioning liberachat as something they might care about in the future, not even trying to actively direct users away from Freenode.
Come on, we both know those topics mentioning libera.chat were "Go to Libera.chat instead! Our channel is now there. Details are..."
If you posted hundreds of messages on this site saying go to lobste.rs then you would get banned. If you posted one I doubt anything happen because that is fair. But lets also add in the fact that libera.chat went around bad mouthing the hell out of freenode and are now crying that freenode won't let them advertise their new network on their network.
Let's not pretend that this is normal. I can freely mention https://lobste.rs on HN and my comment is not going to be deleted or flagged even though lobsters is a directly competing message board, as long as my mention is relevant to the discussion. This was a case of channels being taken over for merely mentioning liberachat as something they might care about in the future, not even trying to actively direct users away from Freenode.