An administrative announcement.
Motherfuckers.
https://mastodon.cloud/media/oxNPAqhKHeUAAvMv1X8
Q: What's this "Federation thing?"
A: A bunch of communities, on different servers, sharing /some/ but not necessarily /all/ of their traffic. Or, in some cases, none. It depends.
The User Guide has a good section:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-Mastodon/User-guide.md#decentralization-and-federation
Q: It sounds as if that's complicated. Do you have a picture you can share?
A: @vhf made one: https://techn.ical.ist/users/vhf/updates/102
It misses a few edge cases, but mostly, that's how the spice flows. Er, toots.
@dredmorbius I know this too is quite old (by some standards) but it gives a security warning first, and then a 404.
Do you have a more recent diagram?
CC: @vhf
@ColinTheMathmo @vhf Sorry, no.
Looks like Internet Archive does NOT have a copy :-(
@ColinTheMathmo @vhf Might have been. I really don't recall.
