Alright so I’m not an expert so I might not be explaining it correctly.

Federated Network: Multiple instances sharing content, such as Lemmy

Peer to Peer Network: There is no “instances”, just peers. Many peers sharing content. Every user is a peer. There is no server costs, because every device connected to the network is acting like a mini-server. It will cost your device some storage space and network bandwith depending on the how the software is designed.

Or do you think Centralized servers are still gonna dominate the future?

  • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I have serious concerns about how it will scale.

    Luckily storage is the cheapest thing generally.

    Maybe down the line they can start using varying degrees of cold storage for older content. Cheaper to store but more expansive to access.

    • shrugal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      We could also just delete stuff after some time. Nobody really needs the 1000th repost of a meme from 20 years ago.

      • demesisx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        If they’re storing it right, it is content addressed, meaning that their servers are aware of duplicates because each file is hashed.