• loathesome dongeater
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    4 years ago

    Internet of Things is different. It refers to electronic devices being connected to the internet so they can communicate via a central hub (like Amazon’s Alexa). Like you can have smart lights in your home that are connected to the internet. So you can use a phone app to control them (turn them off, change brightness or colour, etc.). And you can do this while you are away from home too because they are connected to the internet. This is why it’s called the internet of things.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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      54 years ago

      Oh yes, I know, I just meant that “Federation” is sort of like that except it’s different websites communicating with each other.

      • loathesome dongeater
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        64 years ago

        yeah but it’s not centralised. like in IoT, all electronics communicate with the central server (like Amazon’s or Google’s depending on how you’ve set it up). but in federation, the instances communicate with each other.