This section on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_conflict and this article have a good summary: https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-staff-exodus-new-network/
Essentially what happened is that freenode was bought out a while ago by a company, there was some dispute over access between the "rightful owners" and the self-organized freenode staff. This caused the freenode staff to resign and start a new network called libera.chat. After that a bunch of channels moved over to libera chat and most recently if your topic mentioned libera.chat, the new freenode owners will take it over, ban anyone from chatting in it and change the topic (as happened with #python-fr). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/OVTBKL344XIAVP4W3PR4MXIPSGAFZUQ4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
