Freenode was taken over by a different entity, and former Freenode
staff created LiberaChat.

Short summary of the situation: https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461

With more details:

* https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409
* https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bdd66b8f491