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Can someone explain the Fediverse to me In simple terms? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I get the general gist, like email different instances can communicate with each other but beyond that I'm lost.

I'm sorry if this has been asked 1,000 times lol

Edit: Thanks for the answers this makes more sense now :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Normally a social media site like reddit is whole owned by one company. Now imagine if anyone could just down load the program twitter and run it on their computer. That's decentralized. Now if you link your twitter program to my twitter program so uses can browse both sited that is federated.