I know they are talking about new sexy distributed / federated stuff, but we actually had what they were talking about a long long time ago, and it was distribu

I know they are talking about new sexy distributed / federated stuff, but we actually had what they were talking about a long long time ago, and it was distributed in a very similar way - orgs, corps and just plain people used to run NNTP and IRC servers as they pleased, and cooperated with each other as they wanted. Glad to see good ideas don't die, they just get reinvented.