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Re:Ways to surf some of the decentralized web by mattlondon on Sunday April 12, 2020 @04:44AM (#22846825)
running a server at home is still centralised though - you have one central server, one point of failure. Power cut at home? ISP disconnects you? DDoS? Front page on HN and your ADSL cant handle the load? Government censorsip or other tin-hatery? Your centralised server is down and people can't see your stuff.

The point of decentralised stuff is there is no centralised server, but rather the content is decentralised and thus available when things inevitably go offline. So if your home server goes offline for whatever reason then no biggie - some other node on the network serves your stuff instead.

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Re:Ways to surf some of the decentralized web by viraptor on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:08AM (#22847129)
Depends what you mean by "server". Is the service you're interested in available only via that one server? Specifically, you could host your own twitter-equivalent handle from your own server, and the server going down wouldn't bring down the twitter-equivalent-service. Or your server with your blog going down doesn't bring down everyone's blog.

I'd say we should keep the decentralised and replicated-for-reliability concepts slightly separate. They are interesting together, but they're orthogonal.

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