IRC is extremely federated: building a network of linked servers sharing the same channels was done pretty early in it’s existance.
If anything, IRC is more decentralized than ActivityPub-based services, because there’s no ‘home’ server for a given IRC channel, and if thus if a server goes down, you don’t lose all the channels that were created on it.
IRC is extremely federated: building a network of linked servers sharing the same channels was done pretty early in it’s existance.
If anything, IRC is more decentralized than ActivityPub-based services, because there’s no ‘home’ server for a given IRC channel, and if thus if a server goes down, you don’t lose all the channels that were created on it.