I've been on Lemmy for some time now and it's time for me to finally understand how Federation works. I have general idea and I have accounts on three federated instances, but I need some details.

Let Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta be four federated instances. I have an account on Alpha and create a post in a community on Beta. A persoson from Gamma comments on it and a person from Delta upvotes the post and the comment.

The question: On which instances are the post, the comment and the upvotes stored?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see your point.

I used the term "normalized" in the context of databases. One piece of data should exists only once. But, this contradicts your points of redundancy and control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That isn't what normalized means in the context of databases.

Also databases store the same data many times over often. For redundancy and load-balancing purposes. Really, federation just takes care of replication somewhat.

[–] maniacal_gaff 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, I come from the signal processing world where that means something very different.

[–] killeronthecorner 2 points 1 year ago

That's not what "normalized" normalisation means in the context of databases.