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.
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]
(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.~
That’s not how fediverse decentration works. =P
I like the centralized and understandable moderation of this larger space.
The smaller communities are basically little fiefdoms where you can follow the rules, but if the mods still don’t like you, then you get banned with no appeal process.
what does that have to do with decentralization? fuck cloud fare but is the argument that Lemmy instances shouldn’t try to protect their servers against attacks?
Well yeah… until frontends (instance) can be decentralized and requests sent to fragmented multiple hosts, this is how it works. One centralized frotend, connected to a more federated backend. Afaik, federation traffic should probably not go through cloudflare, but I’m no expert on that, maybe .world admins can comment.
Use a different instance to access the network.
