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!