[rhuber]

"Hey guys, remember when freenode was taken over by one guy?" (It was, like, yesterday.)

It's hard to overstate the dangers of over-centralisation like this, and I say it as a person who used freenode professionally.

https://www.kline.sh/

[nexuist]

...and the moderators who resigned immediately set up their own network under their own terms (libera.chat), so I'm not really sure what your point is? The difference is that you can jump to another server with an IRC client, you can't jump to another Slack with the Slack client.