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title: An all in one free and open communcations platform

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# 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