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Are there any well established definitions for these terms as separate?


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viraptor12/09/2024

Yes? Basically half of them? Some people put federation in decentralised group, some say only distributed is decentralised.

In short: centralised = 1 owner/operator, federated = many semi-autonomous operators to choose from, decentralised/distributed = everyone's an operator on the same level.

With DNS you still have groups of operators who can tell you what to do and they have the main agencies on top of that. I subscribe to the "it's not really decentralised" view.

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