It’s it’s own platform, but there’s other platforms that cross talk and are all one for the end user.
It’s basically reddits within reddits within reddits all communicating with eachother. There is a connect point between them, the individual instances, and they are ran by people willing to do so, they control the flow of communication based on the communities needs, in theory.
I was looking the jerboa page and it called Lemmy a “federated” alternative to Reddit. What does federated mean in this context?
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It’s it’s own platform, but there’s other platforms that cross talk and are all one for the end user.
It’s basically reddits within reddits within reddits all communicating with eachother. There is a connect point between them, the individual instances, and they are ran by people willing to do so, they control the flow of communication based on the communities needs, in theory.
A greedy company can’t block your access.