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by arter45 62 days ago
That's because TCP/IP is a protocol, not a (centralized or decentralized) server. A protocol cannot go down. It can trigger failures, it can be abused, but it cannot go down.

It's like saying "English never burns". Sure, you can't burn English but you can burn specific books, newspapers and so on.
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nout 61 days ago
That's... literally the point I just made in my reply?
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ramblejam 58 days ago
Right but that's kind of meaningless, saying the nostr protocol never goes down, because the AT Protocol didn't go down in this bluesky case either. Protocols don't "go down". Stuff making use of protocols does.
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