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Having many instances is not the same as federation.
by akho 10mo ago
Having many instances is not the same as federation.
- incompatible 10mo agoIsn't one a subset of the other? A system with federation must have multiple instances, but a system with multiple instances doesn't need to federate (in the sense of information passing between independently managed instances.)
- akho 10mo agoYes. My original question was whether federation is necessary for the kind of communities Mastodon serves, not whether the web must have multiple websites.