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How can you explain the Fediverse to someone? (media.kbin.run)

submitted 1 year ago by SamXavia@kbin.run to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If you where to try and explain the Fediverse to someone, how would you explain it with it's different instances? As well as explain why it is better in some ways for the future of the Internet?

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[–] kernelle@0d.gs 2 points 1 year ago

I recently setup my own instance and wrote this for people new to lemmy:

Federated?

~ Anyone can host a server
~ Servers host instances
~ Instances host Communities
~ Communities host wonderful people
~ Instances can communicate freely between eachother
This is the federation

What makes Lemmy and any federated platform so interesting is the ActivityPub protocol. This allows Lemmy, which is a content aggregator social media, to communicate (or Federate) with other types of social media, such as Mastodon (a twitter microblog style) and PeerTube (video hosting). Meaning any instance of the Fediverse can independently read each others content, without the necessity of having to use different apps and/or accounts.

Here you can find my full post.