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> Ergo can't federated, so 1 server = 1 network for Ergo) I guess I qualify as an old timer even though I’m not that old then. If you can’t federate servers I
by tw04 5y ago
> Ergo can't federated, so 1 server = 1 network for Ergo)
I guess I qualify as an old timer even though I’m not that old then. If you can’t federate servers I don’t think it should be called IRC. It might be using the same protocol, but it’s something else.
- progval 5y agoWhy? It doesn't make any difference for users. These days, IRC federation is only used to scale horizontally, and sadly, IRC networks doesn't need to scale over 100k concurrent users anymore.
- tw04 5y agoPart of what made irc, irc is that it was decentralized. A single server breaks the entire premise of IRC. EFNet literally could not exist if it weren’t decentralized.