Using “egalitarian“ instead of “decentralised“ to refer to a network topology without centres
I don’t like the term “decentralised” (which sucks, given how often I use it). For one thing, it’s ambiguous (see, for example, the eternal debate of whether or not to use “decentralised“ or “distributed” when you mean “no centres”). For another, it defines itself in relation to its inverse. I’m going to start using “egalitarian“ to describe the network topology where every node is equal.
@sydneyfalk @aral I agree that it does not describe what is done with this kind of network topology.
I heard about the term "acephalic" to describe this kind of relation of power in this network topology. I like this one.
@inso @aral
oh my yes, I like this term
also I could imagine a privacy-oriented "hardened" separate fed specifically called the Hydra that would seem
SUPER COOL