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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does anyone have a eli5 explanation/read/video of being federated? When I joined lemmy i thought it was lemmy exclusive thing, but now it seems being federated is a copy of your data shared among servers that multiple communities/applications use including outside entities, such as lemmy communicating w/ mastodon? Or am I way off? Any explanation would be greatly appreciated help me get up to speed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Lemmy & KBin & Mastodon & Misskey & Calckey & others all use the ActivityPub protocol to deliver posts to your inbox no matter which account / software created the post in the first place.

How the posts are interpreted changes a bit depending on what software was used to create and display your inbox.

This is very much like how email works in Outlook & Gmail, but how the labels or tagging changes depending on which you use.

Try this video:

https://youtu.be/S57uhCQBEk0

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