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Can anyone Explain how The Federation works to me like I am five years old? (beehaw.org)
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[โ€“] admin@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Wikipedia entry does a very good job in its first few paragraphs:

The fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of social networks which can communicate with each other, while remaining independent platforms. Users on different social networks and websites can send and receive updates from others across the network.

ActivityPub, a W3C standard, is the most widely used protocol that powers the fediverse. Noted fediverse platforms include Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and Threads.

[โ€“] Original@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I appreciate the information you shared about a standard. I was curious at how some level of control was implemented to advance The Federation without there being a sole source of power.