the terminology we use in Matrix is: “federated” = servers can talk to each other; eg email, xmpp, sip, activitypub “decentralised” = data is replicated betwe

the terminology we use in Matrix is: “federated” = servers can talk to each other; eg email, xmpp, sip, activitypub “decentralised” = data is replicated between servers; eg matrix rooms are replicated equally between the participating servers; usenet “distributed” = data is replicated between p2p nodes; eg git, p2p matrix, bittorrent.