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1. ❄️🦊 (icefox@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 22:42:02 EST ❄️🦊

   Cogent, if somewhat superficial, discussion of federation vs p2p architecture: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/federation_future.html

   I'm not convinced cause I think there are uses for both. Nothing stops distributed systems from being able to have "server" nodes that collate information for clients that don't want to participate in the full p2p network

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 22:06:40 EST clacke

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      @icefox Had this in a tab for days and now when I finally read it, I was disappointed how short it was. :-)
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 22:10:36 EST clacke

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         @icefox I think what it misses is that there are systems that are built as a federation, and then there are those built as p2p that can have federation bolted on top.
         
         The fediverse is the former and electrum on bitcoin is the latter.
         
         I think the p2p bit is important for freedom and longevity, and I think the web frontend, implying federation, is important for introduction, discoverability and growth. I also want things to contribute to the web we have.
         
         This is why I want a fediverse frontend to ssb.