it's called decentralized and sometimes it's federated depending on the underlying technology. Like peertube/Mastodon/mbin/lemmy are federated using ActivityPub protocol.
While other technologies like torrents are also decentralized, but peer to peer (p2p). And often using a Distributed Hash Tables (DHT). But not federated. I personally like p2p even more.
Melroy van den Berg
npub18k…amrcf
2025-12-29 14:41:00 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…5ykz
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2025-12-29 14:41:00 UTCEvent JSON
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