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@madez: can you explain how you decide that decentralized account management is an advantage on federated?

• Elv13 11y ago
  If I may give my take on this: Federated: Provide a little better anonymity as many operations are done behind firewalls/NAT/VPNs rather than using public data and point to point sockets. However it has a single point of failure for each nodes and switching from one federated node to another is either problematic or impossible. The federated node can also fall and shut down at anytime. Distributed: Doesn't required accounts. Base identity on cryptography rather than a web service. It use point to point or point to proxy to point communication. Some meta datas, such who talk to who, when and for how much time are available to anyone (cough...) who can tap on ISP connection metadatas. This service is more robust and cannot really be taken down in ways that cannot be fixed. Ring support both federated SIP networks and the distributed DHT network (and a mix of both). (the anonymity problem can be mitigated using tor like onion routing for the negotiation, but it is unrealistic to use real time communication over an onion network. [D]DOS attacks can be handled in a variety of ways, so are DHT trashing ones, bittorrent is still alive and well).