From 79e225a039edd7a8215063deb6c765b9dbb33340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sarah Jamie Lewis Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:14:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] servers --- content/defensive-decentralization.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/defensive-decentralization.md b/content/defensive-decentralization.md index 8856591f..66ca3e7c 100644 --- a/content/defensive-decentralization.md +++ b/content/defensive-decentralization.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ How we design systems to defend themselves from emergent centralization is, I th Protocols such as [Ricochet](https://ricochet.im) and [Briar](https://briarproject.org) provide some of the answer, relying on strong peer-to-peer models that are difficult to directly exert any kind of control over. This kind of design comes with the downside of making certain desirable features very difficult. -[Cwtch](https://cwtch.im) is built on Ricochet with the aim of making many of those desirable features possible. However, one the risks of such designs is that emergent centralization becomes entrenched. As such Cwtch Severs can be seen as having built in defensive decentralization - the more peers/groups using a server, the greater the anonymity set. However, servers don't scale, so performance suffers as the number of connected peers increases, triggering the peers to move to another server. +[Cwtch](https://cwtch.im) is built on Ricochet with the aim of making many of those desirable features possible. However, one the risks of such designs is that emergent centralization becomes entrenched. As such Cwtch Servers can be seen as having built in defensive decentralization - the more peers/groups using a server, the greater the anonymity set. However, servers don't scale, so performance suffers as the number of connected peers increases, triggering the peers to move to another server. Like a slime mold model, I can imagine peers in Cwtch transitioning from clustering around a few larger servers, to being spread out among many smaller servers, and back again.