Fate of the universe on the line, How would you guys define decentralised?

[damon@social.wedistribute.org]

Fate of the universe on the line, How would you guys define decentralised? How would you define federated ?
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[ulrikehahn@fediscience.org]

@damon federated: a structure fundamentally built up by the joining together of (in some ways) equal groups/actors

decentralised - operations (and decisions about operations) are distributed, so they don’t lie in the hands of a single source or actor

[julian@fietkau.social]

@damon I dunno, but I've been playing “Slay the Princess” by Black Tabby Games and there's this lady in the game who keeps making heady philosophical arguments about decentralization. Sometimes when she talks to me, I feel like we're on Twitter and she's inviting me to join Mastodon.

It so happens that she also wants to end the universe. Funny coincidence.