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chuckadams 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email

Federation implies delegation from a central authority, which makes Mastodon and ActivityPub more “confederated” than anything. Inasmuch that MX records stem from the root servers, email is federated that way, but otherwise it’s decentralized, with every MTA being its own authority. The line is fuzzy.

pseudalopex 8 months ago [–]

Words in natural languages develop different meanings. The most common term for a protocol resembling a political confederation is federated.

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