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Can someone please explain federation? (kbin.social)

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Hello all! I'm one of the original reddit users, and before that a long time Digg user. I want to enjoy and participate in the fediverse.

Can someone please explain federation, and to what degree the content from other platforms / instances will appear for a user who only visits kbin.social? I understand that federation is currently broken. What happens when it gets fixed?

I tried searching, but no luck. If there's a fan or link, all the better :D

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[–] Tubbles 0 points 2 years ago

I don't know if your questions are rhetoric or not, but accounts on different instances/platforms are not linked in any way. These instances and platforms are all different social media outlets, they just happen to "talk the same language", called ActivityPub, and are willing to talk to each other. That's it really, and if you want a more complete picture I can highly recommend the wiki article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse.