Mostly all of the volunteers did not support going into partnership with freenode. Thomas was one of the only ones who wanted it (and he only did it when mostly all of the tech team threatned to quit)
(source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)
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(source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)
2) discriminate against huge parts of the Internet with no publicly known rules, nor methods to change that discrimination >Not large parts of the internet, scammy and attacky parts of the internet. If the rules were public they wouldn't be effective.
3) make the abuse reporting process intentionally difficult and time-consuming >simply untrue, every abuse report i have filed has had an answer back within 24hrs
4) want to aggregate all the DNS data they can by making a deal with Firefox to turn on DNS-over-https by default without asking or even informing end users >this is a good thing as they are audited as having not keeping logs of dns queries
5) want to re-centralize the Internet, in part so they can mix bad actors with good, in ways that make blocking next to impossible >again every cdn centralizes the internet, and many sites need this protection
understand the tech, there is no redefinition going on