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fediverse
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What in previous times was known as "federated groupware". A federated
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system of servers with each supporting some number of users and using
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a loosely agreed upon W3C protocol, but with no overall central controller.
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Email and Usenet were the early version of the fediverse. In more
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recent times systems based around the OStatus and ActivityPub protocols
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are typically referred to as being the fediverse.
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Due to the ability to independently homestead and curate a community, the
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fediverse is generally preferred as a mode of public discourse by real
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hackers, and stands in contrast to the gigantic closed source corporate
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data silos which rose to dominate between 2005-2011, such as MySpace,
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Facebook and Twitter.
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