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You can send a mail from riseup.net to gmail.com and the other way around. | You can send a mail from riseup.net to gmail.com and the other way around. | ||
That's about the same way that "federation" in the Fediverse works. | That's about the same way that "federation" in the Fediverse works. | ||
Federation just means that different or | Federation just means that different or decentralized servers or instances can communicate with each other via a protocol. | ||
Just like email uses POP, IMAP or SMTP protocols for federation, the Fediverse uses | Just like email uses POP, IMAP or SMTP protocols for federation, the Fediverse mostly uses ActivityPub. | ||
== Free Software == | == Free Software == | ||
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== No spying, no ads, no algorithm, no shadowbanning, ... == | == No spying, no ads, no algorithm, no shadowbanning, ... == | ||
The Fediverse runs on donations, not on selling your data, so there are no targeted ads, there are no ads at all. <br> | The Fediverse runs on donations, not on selling your data, so there are no targeted ads. In fact, there are no ads at all. <br> | ||
What you see on the Fediverse only depends on who you follow, not on algorithms or | What you see on the Fediverse only depends on who you follow, not on algorithms or shadow-banning. | ||
[[Category:Beginners guide]] | [[Category:Beginners guide]] | ||