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Re:Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse? by Sporktacular on Thursday February 29, 2024 @09:13AM (#39549503)
" Distributed, i.e. no centers (e.g. personal blogging)"

Is it though? There are dependencies on DNS and CDNs along the way. Can anything ever be distributed without a fully distributed protocol stack?

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Re:Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse? by lorean_victor on Thursday February 29, 2024 @09:21AM (#39549598)
you don't need a CDN or even a DNS to host your blog (though most probably you'd use them). you will still be at the mercy of registries to have an IP address other people can find, but I think practically speaking it is not far fetched to consider this a "distributed system" (for most use-cases anyways).
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