How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    No.

    • I want to send messages to people who are not currently online (having a server stay online for you is a desparate hack and not a solution)
    • I want to send media other than text
    • I want my messages to be e2ee
    • I want presence - e.g. know if someone is available, busy, away
    • I want voice/video calls

    and many more…

    None of these were solved by IRC but by the others you mentioned.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Sure, but all of those things could have been done by extending the existing protocol.

      Also, fwiw, it has had media sends, presence and support for encryption for a very long time. The rest could be added. All of those things could have very well been an IRC client with a couple of extra features and a server upgrade to queue messages.