Federated social media from before it was cool
It's funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won't catch on because "federation is too hard to understand" when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model
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Irc is not federated, though. Servers don't talk to each other
Networks don't, but many servers are used to create a single network.
Efnet isn't a single server. Freenode isn't a single server, etc.