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Tox is distributed meaning it doesn't rely on any central servers.
by irungentoo 12y ago
Tox is distributed meaning it doesn't rely on any central servers.
- gue5t 12y agoThis would be good to note in the post, since right now it's easy to decide not to click anything because there are so many links and the salient feature is never mentioned prior to visiting them!
- irungentoo 12y agoFixed. Thank you.
- hobarrera 12y agoAs is XMPP. Does Tox actually offer any advantages?
- pikdum 12y agoFrom what I understand, XMPP is decentralized, whereas Tox is distributed. http://cffn.ca/img/articles/Centralized-Decentralized-And-Distributed-System.jpg http://cffn.ca/img/articles/Centralized-Decentralized-And-Di...
- rakoo 12y agoDepends. Just like SMTP, XMPP can be centralized (if everyone's on the same server, say gmail.com), as much as it can be distributed (if everyone's on his own server) and anywhere in between. Tox can only be distributed.
- Sami_Lehtinen 12y agoIf it's fully distributed and doesn't use any central servers then user has to bootstrap to network by giving known node information. It's classic annoyance, so having a bunch of bootstrap servers is a good idea. Is that defined as centralized or not, is another question.