Don't use Reddit. It's a monopolistic shithole

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[–]bucetao6969 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What you mean federated

[–]neolib 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_(information_technology)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

Basically this means different instances (servers) can talk with each other, and (in Lemmy case) you can have an account on one instance/server and leave a comment to a thread originated on another instance/server. Mastodon is a more well known example of a federated social network.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Collective P2P (peer to peer) networking to share access (logins) and content (data/databases).