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minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·2 days ago Decentralized (no abuse of power and doesn’t have a single point of failure) There is a direct server though, is it federated? The readme doesn’t say it’s federated at all
minus-squaremoonpiedumplings@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoIt’s not federated, just easy to self host and point custom clients at.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoThat’s too bad, that’s a hard line for me, it has to have the option of federation. Also, so it’s a direct server, so it is centralized, there’s nothing decentralized about it
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoIt is decentralized in the respect that communities run their own servers, in comparison to discord where there is an overarching corporation managing everything
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoBut that’s not decentralized. It’s the same as discord, only instead of a corporation now you have a server admin.
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·2 days agoAre you sure? Because they also seem to be behind Fermi which sounds federated
minus-squaremoonpiedumplings@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoFermi is just a custom client for discord/spacebar. It’s not federated.
There is a direct server though, is it federated? The readme doesn’t say it’s federated at all
It’s not federated, just easy to self host and point custom clients at.
That’s too bad, that’s a hard line for me, it has to have the option of federation.
Also, so it’s a direct server, so it is centralized, there’s nothing decentralized about it
It is decentralized in the respect that communities run their own servers, in comparison to discord where there is an overarching corporation managing everything
But that’s not decentralized. It’s the same as discord, only instead of a corporation now you have a server admin.
Are you sure? Because they also seem to be behind Fermi which sounds federated
Fermi is just a custom client for discord/spacebar. It’s not federated.