After ~15 years on Freenode, I was taking a wait-and-see approach. Despite reading like four explainers, I didn't really understand what the drama was or why the new owner was such a disaster. I kind of expected the drama to die after a few weeks/months, and then Freenode would go back to being just another IRC server. Then I woke up this morning and saw this. Bye, Freenode.
So much this. Yesterday I did a walk through the ~44 channels I frequent on FreeNode and came up with about 20ish that where moving to either OFTC or Libera. I left those channels, keeping ~24 channels that were not likely to move off of FreeNode.
Fast-forward today. All those channels are moving now, none left! Yesterday this could be considered a 55/45% split and had new FreeNode staff taken a win-trust-dont-rock-boat approach, I'm sure the network would've been fine.
Yesterday I was staying on FreeNode, because I don't really know the thinking behind all parties involved and could see the possible reasoning on both sides. Today I'm disconnected from FreeNode and on OFTC + Libera.
