> I provided many servers, of course, but also 7 figure funding In my book, that's irrelevant. If i choose to donate personal resources to a project, it does n

> I provided many servers, of course, but also 7 figure funding In my book, that's irrelevant. If i choose to donate personal resources to a project, it does not entitle me to any power over said project. > fully in charge (...) my ownership As someone who's external to both Freenode and Libera project, my understanding was that both aimed to be somewhat-horizontal projects and that such fine print was irrelevant. Much like Debian project has a DPL for some specific situations but actual decisions are taken by the base (which has pros and cons). > Tomaw and I were in discussion... I'm not saying there was no drama prior to the discussion. I'm saying many people who had a neutral stance on the matter were pushed to exile by your new team's aggressive actions, which you don't seem to refute. > Finally, stop trying to force or pressure people to leave freenode. I'm not. I'm always happy to side with an established non-profit versus an unclear business plan driven by an entrepreneur, but in this specific case i have zero balls in the game. You'll find me much more active in XMPP spaces where such concerns are non-existent because user hosting is decoupled from chatroom hosting (via s2s protocol). > As for me and freenode, we have been in legal discussion to truly decentralize the network and give it to the people Cool. Despite my profound disagreements on general politics, i wish you the best on this path. I've read more than a few cringy arguments for Freenode in the past months, but i believe all of us can take a turn for the better at any time. Can't wait for the non-profit to be officially registered!