Basically. There's a small community of IRC. That small community is now going to have a large portion that says "freenode is a nogo". What's the realistic community remaining in freenode? Who's going to donate? invest?

I'm an outsider and wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

Some hints (root is rasengan):

<root> jane_doe: hint the freenode network is its own sovereign state

https://freenode.net/news/taking-irc-further#canceling-cance...

The past few years have shown that if you say "Free speech!" and "Cancel culture!" and "Blockchain!" loud enough, you'll get an audience, no need for any substance behind it - and the more dramatic your actions, the more they'll follow you, with little regard to whether those actions make any sense.

My guess is q anon.