Re: lamers on IRC

[Thomas Lord <lord@basiscraft.com>]

If your line of reasoning were true, it
would mean that all forms of peer-to-peer
networking are "the same" aside from "style".



-t


On 2022-05-29 19:24, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Thomas Lord wrote:
> 
>>> But with the Fediverse you have it,
>> 
>> Not at all - that's a very different system for a fairly
>> narrow set of purposes, but I'll drop it.
> 
> They call the architecture with many servers a federation but
> it's the same as the Usenet one, see these images
> 
>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/pimgs/comp/net-arch.png
>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/pimgs/comp/usenet.png
> 
> So while in theory it is total P2P in practice it is
> client-server only there are many servers that themselves
> share information, or temporarily acts as clients if you will.
> 
> It's the old redundance and propagation scheme all over.
> 
> So then the Fediverse (a concept) is the whole set based on
> this network idea, and the Mastodon "instances" (servers) that
> offer a FOSS Facebook/Twitter-ish service is just one service
> of many possible, albeit one that has been realized.