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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by three_seagrass on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:01PM (#23683770)
e-mail is a communication standard, not a network/system.
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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @08:52AM (#23689488)
You are trying to say it doesn't fit the 'anything decentralised' criteria?
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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by three_seagrass on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:39PM (#23695622)
The email standard is the same as only accepting letters mailed using letterhead formatted in Arial font.

When discussing a decentralized version of reddit, it's not the same thing. Protocols are not the same as networks/systems.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:30AM (#23698056)
That's nonsense. Anything decentralised uses a certain set of rules how independent entities interact with each other. Such rules form a protocol. For example, XMPP is one such protocol. One can build reddit-like or Facebook-like service using xmpp, which will work across multiple independent servers. (In fact, that's what we are going to do, unless we run out of funds first)
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