What if federation is described as posts, comments and votes syncing between servers? This could make more sense to some people, and make it easier to explain some federation quirks ("this server stopped this other server from syncing with it", "Votes differ slightly between instances because they are still syncing")

What do you think?

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Sure, but this doesn't explain all the different servers, and how they interact.

I think most people understand that there is multiple lemmy websites, but they don't seem to know that they are interoperable. Most people assume they are all islands.