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What is Federation, Defederation, Fediverse, Cross-Platform Instances etc.? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Arinn to c/[email protected]

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Edit: I appreciate everyone who took their time to comment and provide explanation. All the comments were really helpful and informative. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The explanation given here are very good. I just want to had add that theoretically, any Lemmy instance can communicate with another instance from another fediverse software but in practice, developers haven't had the chance yet to make sure every feature is compatible with the each every other software.
If you want to try sending message across the different instances and softwares of the fediverse without spamming or flooding people discussion spaces there is a dedicated community: [email protected]