IRC is Decentralised
Bye, Microsoft Teams/Skype

310k earlier this month; jumped to 320k around the time of Microsoft outage
Be in control of your uptime and downtime. No more hollow apologies. No more complexity. No outsourcing.
Government departments and businesses (even here in the UK) learned their lessons from their mistakes. Will those lessons result in actions?
Now it's the time for technical folks to explain to people decentrealisation, self-hosting etc.
Afterwards that can be implemented/deployed.
We, for our purposes, have used IRC a lot for nearly two decades.
IRC isn't hard to install and manage. It just takes some patience and practice. Several of us know how to manage IRC.
Nothing from Microsoft is free. You always pay one way or another. Sooner or later. █

