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Federated social media from before it was cool (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won't catch on because "federation is too hard to understand" when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Irc is not federated, though. Servers don't talk to each other

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Networks don't, but many servers are used to create a single network.

Efnet isn't a single server. Freenode isn't a single server, etc.