Unfortunately what seems to be the cached version of lemmy.fmhy.ml is now slowly disappearing from Cloudflare. Those 2 comments have now been lost as well along with most of the content.

    • hstde@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      You can think of it like group chats. Each and every chat is an instance. And to be federated just means that two chats have agreed, that there is one person who copies the text from one chat to the other. In principle this, but much more organized with communities (sub groups) and subscriptions and the like.

      Now in reality this is much more complicated, because people want to be identifiable across instances, which is why you can’t have just one person in the chat posting Just the text, they need to mention who it was that texted that.

      Losing the domain was like the person who was in both chats disappearing and you can’t register with their name, but someone else doing what they did, would mean that everyone would need to update their filters, because “I said the first time, that I don’t care about your weekend, Carl!”

      So they try to solve that.