IRC scaled well for its time but it didn't have today's population. Also remember that we could download every movie and game for free at one point. Likely dec

IRC scaled well for its time but it didn't have today's population. Also remember that we could download every movie and game for free at one point. Likely decentralized networks might end up like web3 or torrents. You're also likely to get partially centralized communities again like 4chan or the more extreme 8chan, or something fairly sustainable like Something Awful.