This is a serious question, because it&#x27;s the situation I&#x27;m in: Why would somebody who is techy enough to use a decentralized social network, not just use IRC?<p>I have a group of techie friends. We started a &quot;private&quot; IRC channel in 2010-ish and so far have been unable to find something better. Modern clients embed images, embed video links, and so on. We have bots that handle upvotes and offline messaging and a few other things. We even have a thingy that shows history (and most modern clients do that anyway)<p>None of us would be willing to self-host anything. Too much effort.<p>Am I misunderstanding how decentralization works for Charme? Is it more like hosting my own website, or more like using git?<p>I like the idea. I worry about moving my existing social capital.