• Karl
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    3 hours ago

    I’m a little dumb as to these things, what does federated mean ?

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      2 hours ago

      So, non-federated means one company/organization has full control over some product/service/website (like Twitter, Reddit, etc).

      Federated means that individuals can independently run instances of some product/service/website, and all those instances can talk to one another and share/sync data (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc).