On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 14:27:16 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Having said that, if you want something truly decentralized you might look > > at: > > - gnutella chat > > It is decentralized, and as a result cannot implement reliable > delivery to offline users.
The OP has I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system ... Perhaps he should say what he means by "decentralized" and we can stop hunting about in the dark. Any method which needs offline delivery could be seen as centralised because the message has to go somewhere other than the intended destination.
