[MrCapybara]

I think they meant servers as in the machine hosting the content you are acessing, such as the machine that hosts HN. Not that every connection goes through a central server, but your content is hosted on a central server, as opposed to FreeNet where your content is distributed and so can't be taken down like a server can.

[LMYahooTFY]

I see, it took a moment to understand what they were describing as I'm not familiar with Freenet, but this makes it much more clear.