I think there were many many people on the fence, however freenode's new leadership repeatedly made it impossible to stay. To name a few.
Forcefully taking over control of channels that mentioned libera.
Completely banning irccloud users.
Network banning people mentioning libera.
And then dropping the entire nickserv chanserv databases whole setting everything back to square one.
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I think if freenode did nothing at all, there would have been massive fragmentation. I would like to think the crazy and erratic behavior in the end was to facilitate a smooth transition.
Indeed. The initial exodus was strong, but lots of places were taking a "sit back and let this blow over, then evaluate" approach that could easily have lead to many staying on Freenode, but if you don't know if you have your channels anymore the next morning and see how new staff are behaving, many jumped or were forced to jump quicker. (E.g. the FSF, despite all the earlier "We defend Free Software!!!!" branding)
Forcefully taking over control of channels that mentioned libera.
Completely banning irccloud users.
Network banning people mentioning libera.
And then dropping the entire nickserv chanserv databases whole setting everything back to square one.
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I think if freenode did nothing at all, there would have been massive fragmentation. I would like to think the crazy and erratic behavior in the end was to facilitate a smooth transition.
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