Today, someone said, "Decentralized social media is a failure because technology like IRC lacks marketshare."
Sorry, stop the bus!
Why is marketshare the key metric here -- and not persistence and longevity?
I've been using IRC for nearly 30 years. It still works.
How long will WhatsApp work? I don't know -- only for as long as WhatsApp serves Meta's bottom line.
If we measure by persistence and longevity, IRC is a huge success!