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Hm, I actually don't know if there's a word for it, but I was talking about blockchains with someone, and one of my points is that the blockchain is decentralized, but also kind of isn't, in the sense that there is only one ledger that everyone shares. This as a counterpoint to a federated system like Mastodon, where every server can exist independently of others. Is there a word for this?
@gargron blockchain nodes share a single coherent state while mastodon nodes don't care about reaching consensus. So maybe consensus is the word you're looking for?
