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This is exactly what happened when the folks behind the hostile takeover of freenode started banning people for talking about libera.chat. And we see precisely how well that went for freenode. This is what happens when business people make decisions.
Freenode went down the crapper? Dang. I used to use them a lot back when I didn’t know anything about Linux
Oh, yeah, it was this huge, frankly surreal, thing. The founder of Private Internet Access decided he wanted his own IRC network and bullied his way into being in charge, along with a team of cronies and yes-men.
Dang. You are just full of good news. That’s my VPN too!
The dude might be actually insane, calls himself the crown prince of Korea
Is being a complete crackpot a requirement for being a CEO nowadays?
former freenode people migrated to libera.chat. not sure what to do about the vpn
Not renewing for sure!