Comment on Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying
TCB13@lemmy.world 13 hours agoI get your point, those systems make it harder to take down things permanently but they aren’t as resilient and perfect as people paint them to be - an it has nothing to do with being pedantic, it is just the reality of things.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s still a decentralized system, and saying that they aren’t because the default is for everyone to use the same node is either disingenuous or missing the point entirely. By your definition decentralization is impossible, because you always need to know at least one node in the network in order to enter.
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Unless someone finds a way to advertise nodes that doesn’t depend on the entry point then yes. Consider this example: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/…/chainparams.cpp#L112 if someone takes down those domains it is game over for a new node until someone updates the code.