While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the owner of the website, the decentralized structure of the Fediverse allows any individual or organization to host a social platform using their own servers…. [Source]
Federation by its very nature is the very definition of decentralized. My best guess is that you’re conflating high availability (e.g. fail over servers, or round robin, or something else where when one server goes down, another kicks in as a backup but still on the same domain) with federation.
That’s why it’s called “federated” and nont “decentralized”
Freenet/Hyphanet is I think too slow for modern internet users. P2P networks have always struggled with solving the service lookup and access problem.
Even advancements like DHTs or cheat methods like trackers will still only get you so far compared to plain old client server DNS.
Bruh.
(Emphasis mine)
Oh lol, guess they inflated its capabilities ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Federation by its very nature is the very definition of decentralized. My best guess is that you’re conflating high availability (e.g. fail over servers, or round robin, or something else where when one server goes down, another kicks in as a backup but still on the same domain) with federation.
~No shade btw.~