Comment on Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 9 hours agoIt’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 5 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.