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The underlying problem of the Fediverse and other decentralised platforms (bitkeks.eu)
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Some interesting data on hosting service centralization of mastodon instances.

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[–] [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).