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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by rasengan on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:14PM (#17378604)
I would be happy if it looked like 1995. It was actually decentralized.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by greglindahl on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:39AM (#17379719)
IRC, FTP, and SMTP are all decentralized. That's the good part about them.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by zingmars on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:09AM (#17380473)
If IRC is decentralised, then so is Slack and all it's clones. Except they're not.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by s3krit on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:43AM (#17380552)
Cool, I look forward to connecting to your Slack server.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by zingmars on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:33AM (#17380754)
Self hosted and centralised are two separate concepts. IRC is very much a centralised service even if you can host your own servers. Matrix would be a better example of a decentralised protocol.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by kchr on Saturday June 23, 2018 @12:16PM (#17381910)
> IRC is very much a centralised service even if you can host your own servers

IRC being an open protocol and having the option to run your own servers is what makes it decentralized. The various "major" IRC networks (EFnet, Freenode etc) are decentralized too, since they are isolated networks.

Slack offer neither of these - they own all servers, the protocol and controls the API (which is not the same as an open protocol).

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by u801e on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:47PM (#17382376)
Not only that, but it didn't require nearly as much bandwidth. AFAIK, most "modern" web services today would not be usable over a dial-up speed connection.
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