# An all in one free and open communcations platform

* introduction
* why a new chat application is needed
* current censorship problems
* centralization of social media
* problems with p2p architecture for real time chat
* existing chat applications
* overview of existing chat platforms
* history of internet chat
* internet used to be much more decentralized than it is today
* over time large corporations centralized control
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* IRC
* usenet
* discord
* telegram
* signal
* matrix
* jitsi
* mumble
* tox