Especially considering that probably most of the current freenode users are idling or even orphaned bouncers. IRC is such that connection counts do not mean an

Especially considering that probably most of the current freenode users are idling or even orphaned bouncers. IRC is such that connection counts do not mean an actual person is behind the connection. But obviously everyone who moved to Libera did so actively. 18K active users vs 69K total connections is huge.