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+Federation
+==========
+
+In the spirit of Mastodon and other `Fediverse <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse>`_ ("federation universe") applications,
+GoToSocial uses the `ActivityPub <https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/>`_ protocol to communicate between its own servers and those
+of compliant software.