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# Decentralization
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A technical and marketing buzzword use amorphously to refer to an unclear set of aspirations about a technology or community.
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In information technology it refers to a type of network topology in which a system has no single point of failure and whose workload or actions are performed in parallel by multiple computers which provide a shared service.
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The internet is the canonical example of a decentralized network.
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This term is often falsely used interchangeably with "democratization", which has an orthogonal meaning.
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## References
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* [@diehl_decentralized_2021]
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* [@schneider_decentralization_2019]
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* [@bodo_decentralisation_2021]
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* [@zhang_aesthetics_2019] |