What if federation is described as posts, comments and votes syncing between servers? This could make more sense to some people, and make it easier to explain some federation quirks ("this server stopped this other server from syncing with it", "Votes differ slightly between instances because they are still syncing")

What do you think?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe describe it as a network with shared posts and userbase?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I do that already.