D acu-t Fediverse?
I umbadal n imaylen
Tesriḍ ajerred deg usaǧǧaw n imayl
n penpal?
How about their phone network?
[Meow]
Of course you don’t
because standards exist to federate these services
enabling you to communicate with anyone
regardless of provider.
Without federation,
you would have to subscribe
to multiple providers.
Or worse,
the services with the most users
would hoover up everybody else,
eventually leading to monopolies
and open to abuses.
So why should everyone subscribe
to the same platform to share videos and messages?
Why aren’t social networks federated?
Each planet here is like a service provider.
With a centralized approach,
you can only interact with the people
on the planet you live on.
Now imagine…
if you could communicate with people
on other planets.
Imagine…
if you could share videos, events
instant messages, microblogs…
with the whole universe.
Imagine…
if it didn’t matter which planet you came from.
Standards are a common language
for software to communicate.
Your login on any one of these services
allows you to interact
with a whole diverse universe
whilst not being tied to just one corporation.
This is… the Federated Universe.
The Fediverse!