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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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