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What does federated mean is this context? (from a non-native English speaker)
by jerrre 8y ago
What does federated mean is this context?
(from a non-native English speaker)
- projectramo 8y agoSame question. I have heard it used to mean there is no one central server but a lot of people put their servers together. I don't understand it in this blogging context because you can always put up your own blog on your server. How is running your blog or blogging platform on your own server different from other blogs or platforms?
- detaro 8y ago"Interact with the decentralized social web via ActivityPub." It directly speaks to Mastodon and other Fediverse software.
- StavrosK 8y agoIt means your blog can communicate with other software that supports ActivityPub, so you aren't locked in to one community. For example, I can follow your blog from my Mastodon (a Twitter-like project) as if it were a Mastodon account.
- jerrre 8y agoAh, thanks! So it's not non-nativeness at fault :) Just that I'm some-one with out the knowledge you assumed.
- dtjohnnymonkey 8y agoA canonical example of a federated system would be email. Anybody can participate in the email ecosystem as a function of the SMTP protocol. A non-federated system would be a “walled garden” like Facebook or Twitter.