[bigiain]

Too little, too late, no clue.

Lee will never be trusted again by all the FOSS project irc communities he's fucked over, and is unlikely too be trusted by other FOSS irc communities he hasn't (yet?) fucked over but who are watching on in horror.

WHo would ever bother starting a community relying on infrastructure he has any control of? Who would stay on that infrastructure after this? So far as I can tell, only people who don't actually care about "community" or the people in them. The sort of people who'd talk about "representing your brand" on irc.

Freenode is dead. It just hasn't stopped writhing around in it's death throes yet. Brand representatives and their ilk do not bring any value to irc. The people who do create value in an irc channel don't need to put up with this sort of manipulative shit. (And this is why you should build your FOSS chat communities on open protocols and platforms like irc and not locked up in places like Slack or Discord. Lee _thinks_ he has the power/ownership of the communities the way those platform "owner" do, but he totally doesn't. He's trying as hard as he can to introduce friction to communities moving off shitty-freenet, but in reality there is very very little friction. He can try and "trap" newbies who follow old links of discussions directing them to freenet, but there will be nothing of value in those channels for newbies once the community that used to be there is gone.