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0 pointss3krit7y ago0 comments

Cool, I look forward to connecting to your Slack server.

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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.

kchr7y ago

> 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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zingmars7y ago

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.

kchr7y ago

> IRC is very much a centralised service even if you can host your own servers

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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