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Federation is pretty cool (lemmy.ubergeek77.chat)
submitted 1 year ago by ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts.

But, since this is all still federated, I can still create and read posts on other instances while I wait. Even this one! Any other service would just be unavailable completely right now.

I do miss the larger communities on lemmy.ml - asklemmy, memes, and I really wanted to watch the reddit fallout on /c/reddit. Maybe I'll look around for some good replacements for those. Open to suggestions!

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[–] hevyhammr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Federation was very hard for me to comprehend at the beginning, but it all clicked once I read a little of the documentation.

[–] pankkake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can someone explain to me what is the link between Mastodon and Lemmy? From the Wikipedia chart, it looks like ActivityPub links them together in some fashion; I just don't get how.

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[–] harbo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The only problem with federation is duplicate communities, and I don’t even see that as being necessarily a bad thing. I’ll subscribe to multiple communities for the same thing and if, over time, I end up getting annoyed with some of them I’ll just unsubscribe.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All those users who were told "Please move from lemmy.ml to somewhere else. It'll crash. Please spread out" are now seeing why :))

[–] timkmz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I saw a reddit post about alternatives and lemmy was what stuck out the most, and then there was another about how it works (not that indepth) and from there I got to lemmy.world and been here since yesterday