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How is this decentralized? The website says direct communication between app and server node. Decentralized would be peer to peer.

• PufPufPuf 3y ago
  Decentralized doesn't mean peer to peer. It merely means that there's no central provider -- for example, e-mail is decentralized, while Discord isn't.
• maxpert 3y ago
  Exactly my question as well? Its like saying Tabasco the sweetest honey in the market!
  • devpierre 3y ago
    decentralized as in no central server; p2p is not synonymous with decentralized.
• mhluongo 3y ago
  It also says "federated". Assuming that's actually the case, and that servers talk to eachother
• CuriousCosmic 3y ago
  It's decentralised as in federation. There is no central host, only instances that users can pick from (or self host). And to make it more than just a self hosted service, those instance hosts can link their networks together and allow users to interact across the greater web of federated instances. So it's decentralised in the sense that Mastodon or Matrix are.
• Ambolia 3y ago
  If the identity is based on a cryptographic key, I assume you can move your account to a different server? Even without help from the original server. But not sure how easy to move the contacts in that case.
• a2128 3y ago
  Distributed would be peer-to-peer. Decentralized can be client-to-node with no central node. A lot of people use these terms interchangeably and call distributed systems decentralized since distributed systems have no centralization either, but this system with federation is also a valid decentralized system
• Semaphor 3y ago
  This has a good explanation about the different types of networks, and how naming can get confusing: https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/resources/articles/what-is-a-federated-network/ https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/resources/articles/what...