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Centralized/Decentralized/Distributed illustrated https://mastodon.social/media/0QAbGoYA5vX_wfs3x-0
@Gargron @angristan None of these are actually what federations like Matrix or Mastodon look like. In these, the servers form a mesh where each server makes direct connections to all the other servers, and all clients connect to a single server.
Note that the "decentralized" illustration still has a central server.
@Gargron @angristan @vurpo To clarify, I meant that all clients connect to _one_ server, not that they all connect to the _same_ server.