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Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by antocv on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:08AM (#19450022)
Cryptocurrencies are p2p yet centralized, bittorrent is p2p, yet a few search-engines and trackers compared to clients.
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Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by palunon on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:19AM (#19450607)
>yet a few search-enginescompared to clients

Bittorrent doesn't have a search engine, so of course they are not decentralized.

> yet a few trackers compared to clients

Well, not if you count the DHT (the decentralized tracker).

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Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by Arathorn on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:14AM (#19450049)
well, you don’t gave to have a tracker to seed p2p, and they don’t have to cause centralisation. search engines can and should also be decentralised :)
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