I guess this vindicates the operators moving over to libera.chat . In practice, the actual network is mostly intact, just the name has changed.

There are two uses of the word "network". One of them is about the nodes that are all interconnected -- the people and the communities. That's all basically moved over to Libera.chat.

The other is the physical infrastructure. Actually, most of that has _also_ moved over to Libera, and the new Freenode folks are standing up their own in place. Until this wipe, the silent and very professional migration of equipment from Freenode to Libera has been going on essentially unnoticed, and without drama. That's a credit to the former Freenode, now Libera staff, IMO.

But yeah. When this all began, there were two reasonable hypotheses: that the (now) Libera folks were reactionaries, or that they had valid complaints with the new management. If the former, you would expect a tempest in a teapot, and then things would get back to normal. If the latter, you would expect continuing shitstorm.

It's pretty clear at this point that Lee is an unstable lunatic. There's no rhyme nor reason to what he's doing.

I feel validated in my prior flagged comment[0]. The guy clearly has no place running a community or user-facing service of any kind, IMO.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499083

No point linking it - we can't see what it says.

If you turn "showdead" on in the user settings then you can.