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The underlying problem of the Fediverse and other decentralised platforms (bitkeks.eu)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Some interesting data on hosting service centralization of mastodon instances.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Depending on what you mean with distributed it already exists for the Fediverse: Hubzilla and Zap have build in channel clones and nomadic identities, meaning your channel can live on multiple servers the same time and you can easily move between then and onto new servers.

The problem is that this is mostly incompatible with ActivityPub, but Zot network internally it works great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

That's not distributed if there are servers involved.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Hence my "depending on what you mean with distributed" ;)

But I hate to break it to you: servers are also just computers and there is no fundamental technical difference between a federation of servers and a p2p network of "clients".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

yeah, well that's true :D But what I mean is real distribution. Every client is a Server (think IPFS, or scuttlebutt fwiw).