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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by peepeepoopoo on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:41PM (#17379410)
It really boggles my mind that a few actors were able to essentially lock down a federated protocol.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by rasengan on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:42AM (#17380788)
Exactly. That actually causes me anger. Email is so decentralized as a protocol and implementation and yet Google, Yahoo, etc now control email and then made it hard to send email using SPAM as an excuse.
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