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		MuffinFlavored on March 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discord Is Having an Outage What’s a popular decentralized networking protocol that is easily used for chat? XMPP?

29083011397778 on March 17, 2020 [–]

Depending on how you define popular, Matrix [1] fits here. Mozilla has switched from IRC to Matrix recently, and there are likely others I've forgotten or missed.

[1] https://matrix.org/

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