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		0xff00ffee on Jan 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensiv... What's the difference? Is it that P2P lacks a central server but federated is distributed servers (i.e. no single central server, just a bunch that can authenticate against each other)?

EuAndreh on Jan 11, 2020 [–]

Federated: there's a distinction between clients and servers.

P2P: there are only nodes.

eeZah7Ux on Jan 11, 2020 | [–]

No.

P2P: leaf nodes can communicate directly to each other. The network can be flat or structured. There can be more important nodes or not.

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