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What's the difference? Is it that P2P lacks a central server but federated is distributed servers (i.e. no single central server, just a bunch that can authenti

What's the difference? Is it that P2P lacks a central server but federated is distributed servers (i.e. no single central server, just a bunch that can authenticate against each other)?

EuAndreh 7y ago
Federated: there's a distinction between clients and servers. P2P: there are only nodes.
- eeZah7Ux 7y ago
  No. P2P: leaf nodes can communicate directly to each other. The network can be flat or structured. There can be more important nodes or not.