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Federated means all your data is served directly from your own computer so as soon as you switch it off it becomes unavailable and all the kinds of attacks (DDo
by qwerty456127 8y ago
Federated means all your data is served directly from your own computer so as soon as you switch it off it becomes unavailable and all the kinds of attacks (DDoS, pwned, lawyers etc) hit you directly and everybody can find out your home IP address, right? I feel like I would strongly prefer distributed over federated unless I really misunderstand federated (which is very probable).
- dudenotreally 8y agoNo, that's not what federated means.
- kstrauser 8y agoEmail is federated. Do you host your email on your laptop? I mean, you could but most people use remote servers instead.
- bovermyer 8y agoNope, that's not how federation works at all.
- wmf 8y ago2000-era P2P was run from people's desktop computers but federation these days is run from VMs in data centers. You don't turn the VM off but you still have to worry about the other attacks.