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		kasey_junk on May 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost all searches on my independent search engin... Most of the kids in my 3rd graders peer group understand federated infrastructures quite well because of Minecraft. Perhaps it wasn’t the federated nature of irc that was surprising but the fact that it was irc?

mst on May 16, 2022 [–]

Isn't minecraft more decentralised than federated?

IRC networks usually have multiple servers connected together (historically, often run by a bunch of different people) and I didn't think people self-hosting minecraft servers usually did that?

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