this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.
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It's the backend a bunch of smaller social media sites use, allowing them to all communicate. For non-technical users, you shouldn't have to worry about it too much, but it's useful in allowing all these small sites to have far more content then they would if they couldn't communicate.