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by colejohnson66 3647 days ago
But how do you know who to pass around to? Email works by looking up an IP address from the DNS. Sure DNS is distributed, but it all is "centralized" around the 7 root DNS servers.

As I said in my original post, it sounds similar to how Bittorrent's DHT works; you'd still need a "kickstart" server to send you a list of peers. Sure, you can hardcode a list of peers, but hardcoded stuff isn't decentralized. Someone has to maintain that list.