Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.
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Personally I think the word Federated is being used as if it was the word disseminated, which to me is more descriptively apt for common understanding.
“your post is disseminated across multiple platforms at once… across the fediverse… and you are like a sun, each post a ray of light that eventually reaches planets... soon disparate planetary religions spring up worshipping your name spanning light years across many galaxies”
Maybe not the last bit
Federated as it is used rather than it’s definition, seems more like a conflation shorthand of federation and dissemination into a single word placeholder, this might be my very personally arcane issue.
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Here is an edited version of the wiki entry for the fediverse:
The fediverse is a collection of social networks that can communicate with each other using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network.
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How about... the fediverse is like what happens when you build a bunch of interstates between big websites
You could get into railroad and telegraph analogies to, draw your frame. It's the quantum location superposition of your post that's kinda the pickle to explain to the average noodle, or is it?
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@omega said in Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.:
@eeeee I always get a Schrödinger's cat vibe off these fediverse topics am I the only one?
Absolutely, you never know if fediverse posts did or didnt propagate, until they are observed! Haha
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Hmmm @[email protected] is it possible for whatever reason your posts no. 6 and no. 10 in this topic, were not originally available for me to read yesterday/ but I am reading them today, one was a reply to me (but saw no notification) other than that maybe I scrolled past too fast and missed them
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@eeeee Ha ha maybe you answered my last post as I was writing it!
Plus there is another maybe even better word i.e. federated > disseminated / propagated
I believe propagate/propagation is even more accurate way to describe the adventures of efforts in the fediverse!
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One thing that hasnt really been tested yet, is volumes, and the data that needs to be shared if say contribitors are on different networks.
On your physics theme then the data share is potentially exponential as more people join the conversation.
Imagine a thread with 100 different origin posts and the updates required to keep everyone in sync -
@eeeee When you wrote Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.:
a thread with 100 different origin posts
Do you mean each post originating first post action and commitment occurred on a different platform while the entire thread of 100 post is potentially equally visible on each of those different platforms all at the same time?
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@julian as I contributed to this thread also from my mastodon account, should that account (in principle) be getting notified of additional comments on here?
Its currently not, which does negate the observation that data transfer would increase as more people join a topic. However the exponential propagation previously mentioned does not seem to be working - its only on nodebb that this thread is expanding now?Edit: ^might be a Mastondon issue, as the Discourse version is expanding. Its just my mastodon version that isnt.
Edit2; Test to see if edits are updated yet
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@eeeee Mastodon doesn't notify you unless you are explicitly mentioned.
In NodeBB when you reply, you subscribe to the topic (unless you opt out or "unwatch" it), but that doesn't happen in Mastodon.
NodeBB could propagate additional replies to Mastodon and other softwares, it doesn't right now.
