Are Safe Vaults servers or not: a discussion

You disagree its not a Client —> Server model.

I was replying to @anon40790172 using his example as I thought it was a good illustration of what I see.

Vaults use a P2P network between themselves (other vaults) to distribute data. I’m in agreement with that. Once the network has distributed data, the vault acts like a server to clients, by either forwarding to another vault or returning data.

EDIT

You can see it as something completely different if you like, but I feel it shares many similarities with the way we currently interact with the web. The safenetwork is an incremental improvement over what we have today. The safenetwork has taken technologies that exist, some new, and combined them in a slightly different way, thats what makes it so powerful.

Words like farmer, vault, archive node, to me are just synonyms for server. Some will be more dedicated, or bigger than others. Some will be temporary while you’re using your desktop. In my opinion the safenetwork is a network of servers.