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		warkdarrior on Oct 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late Are there any federated and open source solutions from 2002 that are still running today?

haileys on Oct 30, 2024 [–]

email, IRC, BitTorrent, DNS, BGP

buescher on Oct 30, 2024 | | [–]

All but one (arguably two) of those predate the web, incidentally.

warkdarrior on Oct 31, 2024 | | [–]

I’m a bit lost here. How does one implement this PlantStudio software in email (or the other communication protocols you mentioned)?

stavros on Oct 31, 2024 | | [–]

You don't, but that wasn't the question.

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