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?

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That works suprisingly well.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks. I tried to make it non technical at all.