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this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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The feature you are pitching is the distributed nature of the fediverse. It soöves the lock-in problem and the resulting absolute power the big social media companies have over your content and qhat you see.
Content manipulation is still a problem and there are several services that work dosrributed these days so its not the perfect pitch.
Still a worthwhile pick in my book.
Federation is a fairly tricky concept to explain in one minute, I know I didn't get it when I first heard about it.
I was thinking to lean more on the open standards point (which naturally leads to the concept of federation)
It's like email, you have a bunch of different providers who all talk to each other but are run by different people Or phone/text, everyone's got a different provider but everyone can message everyone
Imo the easiest way to think about it is different servers that send each other messages to sync all the content between each other.
You connect to one of those servers, but it doesn't really matter which because the content is the same and you can contact people on all servers. For the same reason it doesn't really matter if one of the servers goes offline, and if one goes rogue the others can just not sync with it anymore.