Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months agoFederation 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.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months 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.
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh you mean like that thing email servers do when they block other email servers. Yeah imagine that. That’d be wild! 😂
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Yeah, I know that and how the same people who support defederation love to complain about Gmail and Outlook blocking their home server.