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@kzimmermann @thenewoil I quite like Telegram, yes, but I wish there was a way to scale federated networks for the masses. I don't think XMPP would work. Maybe Matrix, if they solve their current reliability issues.
@kzimmermann @thenewoil Years before the Internet became available outside universities, I was running a #FidoNet node, a network of #BBS which allowed users to exchange mail and post to discussion groups.
We were volunteer-driven and funded by donations. More hierarchical and more bureaucratic than the #fediverse: we had elections for administrative roles, a long policy everyone had to agree to, voting for policy changes...
FidoNet reached 20k nodes at its apogee.
@kzimmermann @thenewoil Not sure what I was trying to convey with this... just sharing an old memory, I guess 