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What is fediverse and why is it so talked about in this site? (kbin.social)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@s804 ~~it's a cool protocol that many platforms use in order to allow any user on them to communicate with each other. Kbin is one of them. Friendica is another one. Hello from Friendica!~~

Disregard what I said, I didn't really see which magazine I was in. Basically it is a term describing multiple social media platforms, with various use cases, that can talk with each other using ActivityPub - a web protocol (kind of a language in layman terms) that allows them to do it.

Here's an image showing you how that would look like (And here's the source of it. It has a really simple, but comprehensive explanation).
A great website if you want to learn more and discover more platforms in this regard is this one.

As I said in the strikethrough text above, I am on such a platform myself. Hello from Friendica! 😁