I sympathize, believe me. I was at the gym when the announcement was first posted, and even as an administrator, I was caught well off-guard. There was no forewarning, I was as clueless as everyone else was, and when the time finally came for the server's plug to be pulled, it was bittersweet - though diluted by me finding another Minecraft server to reside on, if temporarily.
I'll stop beating around the bush: Lakeshore fucked up the moment he diverted the announcement post to make it all about him and his server. He fucked up again by thieving the TotalFreedom name for himself, without asking anyone in charge, and claiming to be the "maintainer and owner" of it despite the Discord still existing (which he was very quickly banned from). Everything pertaining to the project is a fuck-up, deep within both it's own bones and it's owner's.