Is it sad? Or is it encouraging that people still have this choice? What if #python had been built on Facebook or Google Plus? #python didn't leave IRC, they

Is it sad? Or is it encouraging that people still have this choice? What if #python had been built on Facebook or Google Plus? #python didn't leave IRC, they are just on a different network. Is this not the value proposition of open, decentralized and self-hostable services?