• amzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    That’s just open source, not decentralized. I can’t find a definition of decentralization that would even make it vague. From Wikipedia:

    Decentralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it.

    Signal has a central authoritative server and to use it with any other server you have to modify the source code.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Decentralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within

      Imo this fits my usage of the term — Signal can be broken up into many isolated servers [1] all offering the same service.

      References
      1. Signal-Server. signalapp. Github. Published: 2025-01-31T15:34:14.000Z. Accessed: 2025-02-01T09:24Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server.
        • This is the source code for the server that Signal uses.
    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      That’s just open source, not decentralized.

      Depending on exactly how said open source development is occuring, I could argue that open source development is an example of decentralization. It may even be an example of federation (all depending on licensing and development medium imo).