What I mean is once you’ve made the decision to do this instead of buying, it doesn’t matter which shop you don’t buy from.

Why? It’s not like you’re costing the shop money by taking trash off the floor. If anything you’re more likely to spend money at the shop you do it at for supplies and such.

I found it on Know Your Meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pondering-my-orb

That was my first thought too. What’s this orb pondering business everyone’s on about?

Yeah, I’ve been having the same issue. It clears the page after a BRIEF period of inactivity.

Here I thought I was doing OpenAI a favor by keeping garbage out of their training data…

Does it work now? I think I forgot to add the instance.

Well, as long as a distinction is made. I appreciate the information. I still feel that “decentralized” should be replaced with “polycentric,” but I’ll accept that “decentralized” is the standard term for a system with multiple centers.

Sorry about that. I tried to follow the instructions given in the sticky.

Thanks for asking. :) Have a good one.

Then what would you call a network where specific data isn’t tied to specific nodes and lost when the node goes down?

Because it’s polycentric. Each instance is a center. When an instance goes down, it takes all its users and data with it.

I know people around here aren’t fond of cryptocurrency, but bitcoin is what I’d consider a truly decentralized system. Nothing is lost to the network when a bitcoin node goes down. As long as you have your private key, you can spend from any node, and you don’t even need a node to receive.

I believe it’s helpful to distinguish between the two types of systems.

I just said that lemmy is not a decentralized network…

macro?

I think “polycentric” is a better term than “decentralized.”

Every instance is a center, and is vulnerable to failure and corruption like any service provider. But at least we have a choice of instances, and there isn’t a single point of failure for the whole network.