Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?

• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Federation isn’t the same as “practically the same server”. That’s just Twitter or Reddit you’re describing then, a single fully unified pot of information that is still spread out over a vast amount of individual servers for only for parallelization and redundancy reasons.

  Federated applications like Lemmy are, as the name implies, federated. Not merged or unified or so.

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  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    E-mail is also a federated protocol. Imagine if every time you wanted to send an e-mail, you had to check whether your provider likes the recipient’s provider and if not, create an account at the recipient’s provider.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh you mean like that thing email servers do when they block other email servers. Yeah imagine that. That’d be wild! 😂

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      • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, I know that and how the same people who support defederation love to complain about Gmail and Outlook blocking their home server.

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• Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The main point of federation for me is access to more content without it being run by large corporations. If an instance gets taken over by a toxic group that is bot spamming advertisements or such I can move to another instance and the community lives on without having to find a whole new platform.

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