It's kinda messed up that, in late 2017, social spaces on the Internet are still basically run by feudal lords.

I strongly prefer IRC and Mastodon to Discord/Skype/Telegram and Twitter because you at least get a choice between different feudal lords with those, but you're still essentially at the mercy of whomever runs your instance/server.

(First person to bring up blockchain-based communication protocols gets spanked. :v )

@kaye but block chain! (I seriously have some ideas about how to do this)

@xurnami Imean a fully decentralised protocol probably does need to involve a block chain.

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