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Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work by 3np on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:03PM (#27260447)
I somehow glanced over this, thanks for pointing it out. This definition suggests that "federated" is strictly equal to "decentralized", which is coincidentally not strictly in conflict with what I wrote (though a very unorthodox definition of federated, as it doesn't imply any federation).

Even so, IRC has no business in this list per the authors definition.

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Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work by mastax on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:49PM (#27260921)
> Even so, IRC has no business in this list per the authors definition.

The "network" part is arguable, but IRC does not require any pre-ordained nodes, which matches the author's definition.

It's a small part of full decentralization, but an important one. Being able to point your Facebook Messenger client at a different server would be a big step.

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Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work by Taek on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:37AM (#27261115)
That's not decentralized, that's just open source.
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Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work by Zak on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:57AM (#27265894)
> Being able to point your Facebook Messenger client at a different server would be a big step.

Interestingly, you used to be able to do the inverse: point your XMPP client at Facebook Messenger. I'm pretty sure they never supported federation, but you could connect clients to multiple servers and have a relatively seamless experience from a single client.

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