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What is the Fediverse?

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To exchange emails

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do you need to join the email provider

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of your penpal?

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How about their phone network?

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[Meow]

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Of course you don’t

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because standards exist to federate these services

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enabling you to communicate with anyone

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regardless of provider.

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Without federation,

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you would have to subscribe

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to multiple providers.

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Or worse,

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the services with the most users

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would hoover up everybody else,

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eventually leading to monopolies

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and open to abuses.

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So why should everyone subscribe

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to the same platform to share videos and messages.

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Why aren’t social networks federated?

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Each planet here is like a service provider.

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With a centralized approach,

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you can only interact with the people

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on the planet you live on.

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Now imagine…

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if you could communicate with people

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on other planets.

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Imagine…

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if you could share videos, events

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instant messages, microblogs…

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with the whole universe.

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Imagine…

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if it didn’t matter which planet you came from.

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Standards are a common language

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for software to communicate.

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Your login on any one of these services

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allows you to interact

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with a whole diverse universe

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whilst not being tied to just one corporation.

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This is… the Federated Universe.

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The Fediverse!