Olivier Mehani (shtrom@piaille.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 21:26:50 JST

@lanodan The difference between an open decentralised protocol and a proprietary centralised service.

I was musing about how, when ICQ is off, that's it. It will be a pain to recreate the experience at scale. Protocols, you can reimplement them and redeploy them.

I guess one could still reimplement a fake ICQ backend and re-cobble the network from scratch. But still.

Protocols!