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nntp relied on central servers which clients connected to, so not fully decentralized. That the servers did inter-server replication and forwarding doesn’t rea
by josteink 7y ago
nntp relied on central servers which clients connected to, so not fully decentralized.
That the servers did inter-server replication and forwarding doesn’t really change that.
- ptman 7y agoFederation (email, nntp, matrix) is decentralization, but it's not p2p.
- cm2187 7y agoBut the servers are p2p between them, i.e. they propagate the content to the other servers. If you take down one of them, you can still connect to any other server to get the same data. Keeping in mind this is 1980s technology, it looks pretty close to p2p to me.