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diff --git a/docs/federation/index.md b/docs/federation/index.md index 3f2461bcf..e3de065a5 100644 --- a/docs/federation/index.md +++ b/docs/federation/index.md @@ -1,11 +1,7 @@ -# Why Federation? +# Overview -GoToSocial uses the [ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks/) federation protocol. +This section of documents contains information on the various (ActivityPub/ActivityStreams) elements needed to federate with GoToSocial. -Federation means that you can hang out not just with people on your home server, but with people all over the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse). Your home server is part of a network of servers all over the world that all communicate using the same protocol--they speak the same 'language'. Your data is no longer centralized on one company's servers, but resides on your own server and is shared -- as you see fit -- across a resilient web of servers run by other people. - -Not all of the servers you 'federate' with will be running GoToSocial: popular implementations of ActivityPub include software like [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/), [WriteFreely](https://writefreely.org/), and many others. GoToSocial communicates seamlessly with these other servers. - -This federated approach also means that you aren't beholden to arbitrary rules from some gigantic corporation potentially thousands of miles away. Your server has its own rules and culture; your fellow server residents are your neighbors; you will likely get to know your server admins and moderators, or be an admin yourself. - -GoToSocial advocates for many small, weird, specialist servers where people can feel at home, rather than a few big and generic ones where one person's voice can get lost in the crowd. +!!! info ""Post" vs "Status"" + + Throughout these documents, the terms "post" and "status" are used interchangeably to refer to the same thing: one (micro-)blog entry created by a user, which may contain text, media attachments, etc. |