What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Here’s a reddit analogy:

    An instance is an independent reddit, filled with communities that are an instance’s subreddits. Federation is an interconnection with all the different instances. You, as a user, can interact (post, comment, etc) on all different instances, and subscribe to different communities on different instances.