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I guess I always assumed that IRC was decentralized; one server could drop, or go rogue, with no ill effects. But that's probably an anachronism, given the age
by jojohohanon 5y ago
I guess I always assumed that IRC was decentralized; one server could drop, or go rogue, with no ill effects.
But that's probably an anachronism, given the age of IRC.
- niconii 5y agoIt's not one server, he's obtained control over the whole Freenode network.
- Doxin 5y agoIt's decentralized to a degree. Running an IRC server isn't much more complex than running a HTTP server so just about anyone can do that. Of course when a server (or in this case a whole network of servers) gets hijacked all the people using that server need to find a new server, or decide to be okay with the new government.