A few thoughts on splitting.

The Freenode implosion got me thinking about community splits. It's not great, but it's not a total disaster. Sometimes splits do need to happen. In this case the people that build the internet needed to route around barriers to communication. Summary about Freenode and the issues from LWN. Net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/857140/6e74bc222fb56827/ A more general post but does include some direct social media mentions. https://blog.winny.tech/posts/freenode-is-dead-long-live-freenode/ A great article on Freenode and the FOSS Community. https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/01/freenode_issues_help_irc_grow/ Libera.chat where #librecast is now chatting on IRC. Come say Hi if you are curious about #multicast. We like to do unusual things that aren't video steaming with it. https://libera.chat/news/welcome-to-libera-chat A list of projects that have left Freenode. edit 20210608 : updated link. https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus Early 2000s community platform drama. An ex