Freenode is dead, as far as opensource communities go. Almost everyone I know left for libera.chat and FSF today hammered the nails on the coffin by announcing

Freenode is dead, as far as opensource communities go. Almost everyone I know left for libera.chat and FSF today hammered the nails on the coffin by announcing a move to libera too. The Freenode mess should be a case study on how not to do things. Authoritarian takeovers tend to not go down well with opensource folks.