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what’s really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server? can you reply to a message from one server on another? maybe the main thing would be single account, because even friend lists from multiple accounts could be merged

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renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
what’s really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server?

That’s like asking why Lemmy needs federation if posts are tied to a Community.

No federation means:

Every server requires a different user account to join a room

Every server needs to be accessed from a different URL

Users in different servers cannot direct message, call, or friendlist one another

Federated platforms aren’t perfect, but they solve these problems.
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