why yes i want my totally independent website to join network of dozens of shittier websites so that we can aggregate the content from my website into a shitty reddit clone and have the entire site shut down because one unpaid moderator decided to cut a single string and block half the sites from even working.

yes i dont understand how it works, do you? does anyone understand what the fuck even happened?

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Unlike NFTs or cryptocurrency, federation is based on the ActivityPub open standard, authored by W3C, which is where a lot of important Internet standards come from (founded and still lead by Tim Berners-Lee).

      Maybe Lemmy won't be remembered, but if not, some other implementation of ActivityPub probably will be.

      • mittens [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        some other implementation of ActivityPub

        such as bluesky or threads lol