wayfinderak on Nostr: Out of the 4 example you provided only Email could potentially be considered ...
Out of the 4 example you provided only Email could potentially be considered decentralized. Usenet may store articles in a distributed manner but you still have to connect to a central server to download a list of articles and the majority of articles in a Usenet network are stored on centralized servers, it is the contributions that are decentralized. That is why Usenet is so much faster that torrents, you pay the service so they can host and serve the files from beefy servers. IRC is entirely centralized, the only way to communicate on an IRC channel is to connect to the server it is hosted on. Same with HTTP, there is no way to access the web page without connecting to the central server. Even email is centralized, you could say it is federated but even federated services are just a distributed centralized system. Email is the only one of these services that you could argue doesn't have a centralized source of truth but I would argue that it still does.
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