The fediverse is the network of federated decentralized social media using activitypub to connect. Lemmy (the software on which chapo.chat is based) will be in some months part of this network.
What do you think about fediverse ? Are some of you using Mastodon as a twitter replacement ?
it has a gain in term of critical mass. It is some network theory but well. For a community to stay alive, there is a critical mass of user below which the site will die because nothing happens. (if there is 2 new posts a day here, you'll not come back). With federation, the critical mass is on the network and not on the individual website. Meaning 15 small websites can survive.
I love federation but I never thought about that. That makes a lot of sense on top of the other reasons.