"decentralized" just means "there's no center, no lemmy.com that's the ultimate authority". "federated" means "servers talk to each other". So, like email. Th

"decentralized" just means "there's no center, no lemmy.com that's the ultimate authority". "federated" means "servers talk to each other". So, like email. There's only one Reddit, but lots of places where you can get a mail account.