[abstractbeliefs]

I think this is mostly throwing out chaff for PR purposes:

1) They're not giving the money back, or better and less conflict-of-interesty, giving it to a neutral pro-foss org like FSFE

2) They continue to intimately support freenode

3) Fosshost directors remain as freenode staff but in a """personal""" capacity, despite being overruled unanimously by the fosshost non-director staff.

Nothing concrete has changed, the only thing they have done is roll back their desire to integrate more deeply.

[zatertip]

Staff continuing on as freenode staff is really dodgy, especially now that #python was just manually hijacked in the last 24 hours and Python foundation staff klined. Not a good look to be in such company.

[app4soft]

> Nothing concrete has changed

There was one concrete change[0] just three days ago:

> Application reviews are backlogged and new applications are temporarily suspended

[0] https://fosshost.org/news/applications-temporarily-suspended