• lem135
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    4 years ago

    I understood lemmy is decentralized p2p network how is this possible then? ELI5?

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      4 years ago

      this OP post is a month old. It wasn’t being DDOSd it was trending on HackerNews. Also lemmy isn’t p2p its federated. This means it still works like a traditional server but can connect to other servers. In other words it’s Decentralized but not Distributed.