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Are we decentralized yet?

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487 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 19:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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jcims ◴[30 Aug 25 19:44 UTC] No.45077447[source]▶
How would one measure old school federated contexts like IRC and NNTP in this way? I wonder would they would fare.
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agilob ◴[30 Aug 25 20:03 UTC] No.45077568[source]▶
Remember how freenode changed owner and pretty much everyone moved away from it in less than 1 week? It was easy and possible.
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1. gary_0 ◴[30 Aug 25 21:18 UTC] No.45078101[source]▶
It was a pretty huge disruption, though, even though the damage wasn't fatal.