On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:29 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:

On 29/05/2021 00.11, Bernd Ritter wrote:

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Hi,

the internet has always been fragmented. It even has been designed that

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way. And especially IRC was already grouped into various servers.

My irc clients all support multiple irc connections and I use them all to have my channel windows available.

A centralized solution like Discord or else just gives more power to a centralized entity.

Think then of Usenet instead. A client connects to a server that has a database of "all" the messages, but the messages are propagated to and from many other servers. To a user it does not matter what server he connects to, the "nntp:opensuse" group will be the same everywhere. Maybe with delays.

That's pretty much the Matrix model. Every user from each server connecting to it has those replicated and can see them. That's a big part of how its decentralized model works. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:29 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:

On 29/05/2021 00.11, Bernd Ritter wrote:

...

Hi,

the internet has always been fragmented. It even has been designed that

...

way. And especially IRC was already grouped into various servers.

My irc clients all support multiple irc connections and I use them all to have my channel windows available.

A centralized solution like Discord or else just gives more power to a centralized entity.

Think then of Usenet instead. A client connects to a server that has a database of "all" the messages, but the messages are propagated to and from many other servers. To a user it does not matter what server he connects to, the "nntp:opensuse" group will be the same everywhere. Maybe with delays.

That's pretty much the Matrix model. Every user from each server connecting to it has those replicated and can see them. That's a big part of how its decentralized model works. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!