deon wrote (2021-09-04):

What or where is the edge in a p2p network. And why is there always a
tendency to centralize the shit out of FTNs?

What does a p2p version of FTN look like?

Fidonet technology was always and still is peer-to-peer. Maybe not in the DHT / file sharing sense, but in the sense that all nodes (and even some points) are running the same kind of software and can call each other. Yes, people do like to build some hierarchical structures on top of it, but this is not a requirement.

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On 04 Sep 2021 at 12:41p, Oli pondered and said...

Fidonet technology was always and still is peer-to-peer. Maybe not in
the DHT /
file sharing sense, but in the sense that all nodes (and even some
points) are running the same kind of software and can call each other. Yes, people do like to build some hierarchical structures on top of it, but this is not a requirement.

That's only true in a literal sense, in that any node _can_ send to
any other node, but it's kind of not true in practice and in the shape
of the network; it's really designed to be hub-and-spoke, to mirror
the way the PSTN worked.

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