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The headline is somewhat misleading -- this is a basis for federated IM, like xmpp. It's not truly distributed, the way something like tox.im is.
by giggles_giggles 12y ago
The headline is somewhat misleading -- this is a basis for federated IM, like xmpp. It's not truly distributed, the way something like tox.im is.
- kaoD 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing P2P protocols are distributed but not all distributed protocols are P2P.
- amandine 12y agoMatrix is not P2P, but is distributed: there is no single point of failure, the history is scattered across all servers which retrieve what they need from the others.