If you're just getting started on here, you may be wondering why this place has so many servers and apps. Why make it so complicated?
Click here to find out why:
Twitter is all on one server (twitter.com). This made it VERY easy for Musk to buy it. Any centralised network can be bought out just like this.
The Fediverse is different: as long as we stay spread out on many servers, no one will ever be able to buy this network, not even the richest person in the world.
well, no, it most certainly is not. I can unequivocally say it is spread across HUNDREDS, if not THOUSANDS of actual servers, managed by a load-balancing service. But it is under centralized control and ownership.
It's the federation protocols, not the multiple servers
@video_manager @feditips how would federated instances communicate without an agreed-upon protocol?
ActivityPub is a standard managed by W3C, but anyone can build their own server that implements it. Without a federation protocol, you don't have any federation at all.
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