It's decentralized, not distributed. This shows the difference: https://medium.com/nakamo-to/whats-the-difference-between-decentralized-and-distributed-1b8de5e7

It's decentralized, not distributed. This shows the difference: https://medium.com/nakamo-to/whats-the-difference-between-decentralized-and-distributed-1b8de5e7f5a4 https://medium.com/nakamo-to/whats-the-difference-between-de... It's decentralized like email, not distributed like peer-to-peer protocols such as bittorrent. You can't use the same identity on another email server either. That said, I would like to see a distributed email and Mastodon. And like email, you can't claim your nick on IRC if it is already in use on the same server.