ecosistema-social-decentralizzato/topics/network-structure.md

Network Structure

Federated approach to decentralized network architectures can be categorized as federation where you pass messages between systems (SMTP, XMPP, ActivityPub), and federation where you replicate data between systems (Git, Matrix, NNTP).

P2p networks can be analyzed on a spectrum of fully distributed and p2p, to partially distributed. Supernode architectures, and points of logical centralization in p2p systems, should be addressed.

• i.e. Textile cafes peers as p2p network infrastructure (https://docs.textile.io/concepts/cafes/)

Hybrid federated/p2p approaches should be considered - i.e. a client-server architecture, where you can optionally run the server client-side.

• i.e. Matrix's new P2P work
• categorization of blockchain light clients?