It is because I have been using freenode and most of the opensource projects are running on freenode. Freenode signifies freedom and thats it. No specific reason and I have no objection to the channel being run on any server
I thought of doing it myself a few months ago but I saw it would be hard to manage it as I dont have the fulltime internet (lol Dataone) and the time to manage it. Though now there exists a #thinkdigit channel at Freenode server.
I strongly support the irc channel for digit. It would let many open up to a plethora of knowledge. Lol almost all of my pals use yahoo. ****! They say irc interface looks like msdos.lol! now they will be having a reason to use it.
You may use chatzilla extension of firefox if you dont have any irc client or dont know which one to select. chatzilla is much improved now and supports scripting.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...=firefox&id=16