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====The email allegory==== | ====The email allegory==== | ||
Everybody knows you don't need to use the same email provider to communicate via email. | Everybody knows you don't need to use the same email provider to communicate via email. <br> | ||
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. <br> | ||
That's about the same way that "federation" in the Fediverse works. | That's about the same way that "federation" in the Fediverse works. <br> | ||
Federation just means that different or decentralized servers or instances can communicate with each other via a protocol. | Federation just means that different or decentralized servers or instances can communicate with each other via a protocol. <br> | ||
Just like email uses POP, IMAP or SMTP protocols for federation, the Fediverse mostly uses ActivityPub. | Just like email uses POP, IMAP or SMTP protocols for federation, the Fediverse mostly uses ActivityPub. | ||