Well done!
I have to admit though: while I was reading this, I was lacking in basic information.
What exactly is Federation? Just give me a quick rundown. I’m sure I’ll understand it.
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Thanks for the explanation!
Federation means that different Lemmy instances can now communicate with each other, so if you have an account on one you’d be able to see content from other Lemmy instances that the administrators of your instance choose to federate with.
Oh, I get it; it just means that these so-called “instances” are connected to each other, like an “Internet of Things.”
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.
Oh yes, I know, I just meant that “Federation” is sort of like that except it’s different websites communicating with each other.
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.
So it’s more equal. Gotcha.
Email is the most used federated system. Gmail can go to Yahoo Mail or Hotmail with no problem
Ah, I see.
Awesome! So, did I understand correctly, federation for dev.lemmy.ml (under the new name lemmy.ml) will be turned on in a few weeks? And when will federation be coming here to Lemmygrad? At the same time as the dev.lemmy.ml one or later, or not at all?
Awesome! So, did I understand correctly, federation for dev.lemmy.ml (under the new name lemmy.ml) will be turned on in a few weeks?
Yup that’s right.
At the same time as the dev.lemmy.ml one or later, or not at all?
Yep, it’ll be at the same time.
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That’s very good!
so is federation active on dev.lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml?
Not yet, we wanna let some ppl set up some test instances (and I will too), to federate with the ones we have it turned on for currently, ds9.lemmy.ml is one instance where we have open federation on for it.
Then after a few weeks we’ll move dev.lemmy.ml to lemmy.ml, and turn it on for these two.
Good call. I will look at ds9 since I am curious how it is gonna look in practice. Good work btw comrade. It’s coming together nicely.
Thx, ya I’m pretty excited, its been a looot of hours put into this by just a few ppl to get it here.