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@taralx ("JP Sugarbroad 🐺") retweeted:
@AB9RF ("Kelly Kinkade") replied to a tweet by @eevee:
@eevee IRC was never really decentralized; it took significant resources to run an IRC server and nearly everyone relied on one of a handful of operators.
Not a small bit of blame here goes to the takeover of freenode, which is itself deeply connected to cryptocurrency (MtGox).