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What DOES "federated" mean in this context?

• salvar 8y ago
  I'm still not exactly sure, which is definitely a red flag to me since I'm already a nerdy type that should at least understand the value proposition.
  • shopkins 8y ago
    It means your posts are sent out to followers via ActivityPub. It explains this below, in the "publish to the fediverse" section.
• jdormit 8y ago
  In this context, it means that content from this service is shared with other servers. This is different from decentralized - in a decentralized network, every client communicates directly with other clients, whereas in a federated network, clients communicate with central servers but the servers can interoperate . Email is a good example of a federated network - mail clients communicate with centralized mail servers, but mail servers can send messages to other mail servers. To extend that analogy, when you write an article on Write.as your browser sends that data to the Write.as server, but the server federates that data to various other servers - Mastodon instances, Pleroma instances, etc. This is what enables Mastodon et. al users to like, follow, and share content posted to Write.as.
  • huangc10 8y ago
    Thanks for the explanation :) This comment should be higher up for people to read...