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What most people will tell you about the Fediverse is that it's free software, federated and free from ads, spying and so on.
But what does that mean?

Federation

The email allegory

Everybody knows you don't need to use the same email provider to communicate via email.
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 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 mostly uses ActivityPub.

Free Software

Main article: What is free software?

All of the software used in the Fediverse is Free Software.

Free Software is software that follows the 4 freedoms defined by the Free Software Foundation:

Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

If you yourself can't read or write code, so you can't study, change and distribute the program, you still have some advantages. You can trust the program, because other people studied the code to make sure it does (only) what it's supposed to do. You can request a feature from the developers and if the community deems that feature a good idea it will often be adopted.

No spying, no ads, no algorithm, no shadow-banning, ...

The Fediverse runs on donations, not on selling your data, so there are no targeted ads. In fact, there are no ads at all.
What you see on the Fediverse only depends on who you follow, not on algorithms or shadow-banning.

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-Die meisten Leute erzählen dir, dass das Fediverse Freie Software ist, föderiert und frei von Werbung, Tracking und so weiter ist. <br>
+What most people will tell you about the Fediverse is that it's free software, federated and free from ads, spying and so on. <br>
-Aber was bedeutet das?
+But what does that mean?
+</div>
-== Föderation ==
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+== Federation ==
+</div>
-====Die Email Allegorie====
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+====The email allegory====
+</div>
-Jeder Mensch weiß, dass du nicht den gleichen Email Provider brauchst um mit einer anderen Person via Email zu kommunizieren. <br>
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
-Du kannst Emails von riseup.net zu gmail.cm senden und andersrum. <br>
+Everybody knows you don't need to use the same email provider to communicate via email. <br>
-So ähnlich funktioniert Föderation im Fediverse. <br>
+You can send a mail from riseup.net to gmail.com and the other way around. <br>
-Föderation bedeutet, dass verschiedene, dezentrale Server, oder Instanzen, mit Hilfe von einem Protokoll, miteinander kommunizieren können. <br>
+That's about the same way that "federation" in the Fediverse works. <br>
-Email verwendet dazu POP, IMAP oder SMTP, das Fediverse verwendet größtenteils ActivityPub.
+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.
+</div>
-== Freie Software ==
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+== Free Software ==
+''Main article: [[What is free software?]]
+</div>
-Im Fediverse wird nur Freie Software verwendet.
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+All of the software used in the Fediverse is Free Software.
+</div>
-Freie Software ist Software, die dir die 4 Freiheiten, definiert von der [https://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation], ermöglicht:
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+Free Software is software that follows the 4 freedoms defined by the [https://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]:
+</div>
-* Freiheit 0: Die Freiheit, das Programm auszuführen, wie man möchte, für jeden Zweck.
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
-* Freiheit 1: Die Freiheit, die Funktionsweise des Programms zu untersuchen und eigenen Bedürfnissen der Datenverarbeitung anzupassen.
+* Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
-* Freiheit 2: Die Freiheit, das Programm weiterzuverbreiten und damit seinen Mitmenschen zu helfen.
+* Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
-* Freiheit 3: Die Freiheit, das Programm zu verbessern und diese Verbesserungen der Öffentlichkeit freizugeben, damit die gesamte Gemeinschaft davon profitiert.
+* Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
+* Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
+</div>
-Wenn du selbst ein Programm nicht untersuchen und verändern kannst, hast du trotzdem Vorteile. Du kannst dem Programm vertrauen, denn andere Leute haben den Sourcecode untersucht um sicherzugehen, dass das Programm (nur) das tut, was es tun soll. Außerdem kannst du dir Features wünschen und wenn die Community diese Features mag, werden sie oft umgesetzt.
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+If you yourself can't read or write code, so you can't study, change and distribute the program, you still have some advantages. You can trust the program, because other people studied the code to make sure it does (only) what it's supposed to do. You can request a feature from the developers and if the community deems that feature a good idea it will often be adopted.
+</div>
-== Kein Tracking, keine Werbung, Kein Algorithmus, Kein Shadow-Banning, ... ==
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+== No spying, no ads, no algorithm, no shadow-banning, ... ==
+</div>
-Das Fediverse basiert auf freiwilliger Arbeit und Spenden. Deine Daten werden nicht verkauft, also gibt es keine Werbung. <br>
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
-Was du im Fediverse zu sehen bekommst bestimmst du selbst anhand dessen, wem du folgst. Es wird nicht durch Algorithmen und Shadow-Banning bestimmt.
+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 shadow-banning.
+</div>
-[[Category:Beginners guide/de]]
+<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
+[[Category:Beginners guide]]
+</div>