I thought this would be good to share, its an excerpt from an unpublished interview written in december 2020 about Lemmy’s origins and goals. …
Our comrade Dessalines has great insight into the rise and fall of Reddit and where he expects Lemmy to fall in with the Fediverse and away from corporate social media
It's a term that is newer than email, but accurately describes it.
You can create an email server for you and your buddies to send messages back and forth on. Beyond that, you can also send messages to people who use other email servers. Thus, email is considered "federated".
Where you hear the term used more recently is with the concept applied to social media. Lemmy is a Reddit clone, and you can set one up for your buddies just like we did here. The only issue is that ours doesn't support federation for semi-technical reasons (happy to explain), but that's going to be fixed (later this year maybe)?
Once Hexbear had federation in place, we will be able to post to and interact with communities on https://lemmy.ml as well as https://lemmygrad.ml which are their own "instances" with their own rules and community. If people were to schism because they hate the mods or whatever, they could just set up their own instance with blackjack and hookers, but they wouldn't be totally cut off from Hexbear (unless the admins blocked their whole instance from federation back for being toxic or Nazis or whatever).
Yeah if outsiders come around they'll have to follow our rules and vice versa, if things are too incompatible (outright Nazis, brigades, general toxicity etc) just block the whole instance.
I mean if you imagine the old sub, it was full of libs but still very good, and that's a "worst case" scenario. Not to mention that the other two big Lemmy instances that exist right now are very communist slanted (one is called "Lemmygrad" and the other has a head admin with a Fidel Castro profile pic). We also have more activity than they do (this whole thing is very niche until Reddit and Twitter have their "Digg moment"), so there's nothing to be concerned about for the time being. It's all positive stuff!
It's a term that is newer than email, but accurately describes it.
You can create an email server for you and your buddies to send messages back and forth on. Beyond that, you can also send messages to people who use other email servers. Thus, email is considered "federated".
Where you hear the term used more recently is with the concept applied to social media. Lemmy is a Reddit clone, and you can set one up for your buddies just like we did here. The only issue is that ours doesn't support federation for semi-technical reasons (happy to explain), but that's going to be fixed (later this year maybe)?
Once Hexbear had federation in place, we will be able to post to and interact with communities on https://lemmy.ml as well as https://lemmygrad.ml which are their own "instances" with their own rules and community. If people were to schism because they hate the mods or whatever, they could just set up their own instance with blackjack and hookers, but they wouldn't be totally cut off from Hexbear (unless the admins blocked their whole instance from federation back for being toxic or Nazis or whatever).
Mastodon is the Twitter version of this btw.
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A site gets to choose what other sites it federates with, just like you could block specific email addresses from sending you mail.
Yeah if outsiders come around they'll have to follow our rules and vice versa, if things are too incompatible (outright Nazis, brigades, general toxicity etc) just block the whole instance.
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I mean if you imagine the old sub, it was full of libs but still very good, and that's a "worst case" scenario. Not to mention that the other two big Lemmy instances that exist right now are very communist slanted (one is called "Lemmygrad" and the other has a head admin with a Fidel Castro profile pic). We also have more activity than they do (this whole thing is very niche until Reddit and Twitter have their "Digg moment"), so there's nothing to be concerned about for the time being. It's all positive stuff!
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I believe Hexbear devs were trying to backport Hexbear-exclusive features (like emojis) back to mainline Lemmy and get federation "for free".