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In the Fediverse you can use your "Twitter" account to interact with "Facebook" users, share "Instagram" posts, comment under "Youtube" videos, listen to "Bandcamp" music, follow "Wordpress" blogs, take part in "reddit" discussions and more. | In the Fediverse you can use your "Twitter" account to interact with "Facebook" users, share "Instagram" posts, comment under "Youtube" videos, listen to "Bandcamp" music, follow "Wordpress" blogs, take part in "reddit" discussions and more. | ||
== What is "Federation"? == | |||
=== The email allegory === | |||
Everybody knows you don't need to be on the same email Provider to communicate via emails. | |||
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. | |||
Federation just means that different or decentral 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 mostly ActivityPub. | |||