Comment on Should lemmy.lukeog.com be defederated?
Shouted@programming.dev 7 months ago
What does defederation mean? Sorry, I’m new here
Comment on Should lemmy.lukeog.com be defederated?
Shouted@programming.dev 7 months ago
What does defederation mean? Sorry, I’m new here
terribletortoise@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lemmy is distributed across different instances. Instances can “federate” with each other, which means they share content and users with each other. “Defederating” means to remove that content sharing with the other instance.
As an example, let’s say that Instance-X contains unregulated hate speech on it. Other instances can remove federation from Instance-X so their community posts no longer get shared to them.
Shouted@programming.dev 7 months ago
Thank you!