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Federation is pretty cool (lemmy.ubergeek77.chat)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Federation was very hard for me to comprehend at the beginning, but it all clicked once I read a little of the documentation.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    For me it clicked instantly after reading e-mail analogy.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'd love to hear this e-mail analogy.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years 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.

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