Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by remram on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:06PM (#26881688)

"Decentralization" referring to P2P is exactly what I said...?

If you are going to pick a tiny part of the page, you might find that it's not sufficient. In the sense of your chosen quote, Twitter is decentralized, since it runs on multiple computers organized in a network. Those are capable of running independently of each other, to a degree, if Twitter Inc did their High Availability work correctly.

It is not decentralized from a user's perspective though, since the software they use on their devices cannot run independently of the remote systems of twitter.com.

I don't know where that leaves us, but then again I don't know what you were trying to argue either.

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Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by kitkat_new on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:33PM (#26882044)

Just because P2P is a form of decentralization, it does not need to be the only form of decentralization. Federation is imho another form of decentralization.

Yeah, and I agree there are different types of decentralization: e.g. physical, authority, ... or combinations

Each incarnation with different goals

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Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by remram on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:33PM (#26882797)

Sure, this is not the only possible way those words could be used, which is why I mentioned a "consensus". Many words can be used in ways that are "technically correct" but confusing. Like I said, by some definition Twitter is "decentralized", however it is not what anyone ever means by "decentralized".

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