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Federation is pretty cool (lemmy.ubergeek77.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts.

But, since this is all still federated, I can still create and read posts on other instances while I wait. Even this one! Any other service would just be unavailable completely right now.

I do miss the larger communities on lemmy.ml - asklemmy, memes, and I really wanted to watch the reddit fallout on /c/reddit. Maybe I'll look around for some good replacements for those. Open to suggestions!

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[-] gronapa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the one that clicked for me credit to Matthieu@piaille.fr

You can think of it like emails.

A lemmy community is like an automated mailbox that sends everything they receive to all subscribers.

You can host a mailing list/community on gmail.

Then you can subscribe to the mailing list from outlook.

Then a user can send a post to the mailing list from yahoo.

The automated mailbox at gmail will receive the message from yahoo and send it to outlook and all other subscribers.