Imagine an entire website like Chapo is a subreddit.
Now imagine connecting all the subreddits(websites like chapo) up together so that all of them can cross communicate and share a single frontpage that users can subscribe/unsubscribe from the different websites in the federation.
Federation functions to link up many different lemmy websites together and give them a "frontpage" like reddit while also enabling you to filter out the ones you don't like.
It's an evolution of reddit. Taking the subreddit concept wehre reddit acts as the centralising fact and evolving it into entire sites where the federation acts as the centralising factor instead.
Imagine an entire website like Chapo is a subreddit.
Now imagine connecting all the subreddits(websites like chapo) up together so that all of them can cross communicate and share a single frontpage that users can subscribe/unsubscribe from the different websites in the federation.
Federation functions to link up many different lemmy websites together and give them a "frontpage" like reddit while also enabling you to filter out the ones you don't like.
It's an evolution of reddit. Taking the subreddit concept wehre reddit acts as the centralising fact and evolving it into entire sites where the federation acts as the centralising factor instead.