People don’t use IRC anymore because there are better open alternatives like Matrix and ActivityPub based systems. Those are what the “hard core” people use. A

People don’t use IRC anymore because there are better open alternatives like Matrix and ActivityPub based systems. Those are what the “hard core” people use. As for the cloud there are loads of clouds. Web sites can be moved. Same with git hosting which just provides a convenient place to store the repo and post meta data like issues. Moving from GitHub to Gitea or GitLab is usually pretty easy. More and more people seem to be at least trying a less centralized approach. Personally I think we passed peak centralization in the middle 20-teens when there were just a few social platforms everyone used and federated stuff was primitive and new. We are well into the beginning of the unbundling phase.