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by Arathorn 1482 days ago
the terminology we use in Matrix is:

“federated” = servers can talk to each other; eg email, xmpp, sip, activitypub

“decentralised” = data is replicated between servers; eg matrix rooms are replicated equally between the participating servers; usenet

“distributed” = data is replicated between p2p nodes; eg git, p2p matrix, bittorrent.