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@kaniini the thing about decentralized networks is that if they take a little bit of foothold, there is a lot more survivability chance.
XMPP did not really die in the late 2000s. It just went dormant. There is still an active XMPP network, and Jabber community seems to thaw out as new standards get accepted in XEP list.
E-mail is fucking eternal. Honestly, its technical base has exceeded its technological lifespan, and should have died (and get reborn) a long ago, but it seens it never will. We're stuck with it, pretty much.
Even the Fediverse. It has been a thing since 2008, it's 10 years old, but it has been in dormant state most of that time. Mastodon, say what you will about it, was the Fediverse's great comeback, spectacular one at that, in fact.
Or BitTorrent. It is alive despite very active opposition from certain groups of very powerful people. Even they are not powerful enough to snuff it out.
That's what I find fascinating about decentralized FOSS networks.