Today you will learn what Fediverse is, how it looks in Russia and in the world, and how to become a part of the "future Internet" right now. Go!
Hello, Habr! I first learned about Fediverse this winter when I read an article by Alexei Polikovsky in Novaya Gazeta. The subject of the story hooked me and I decided to try it on myself. Then I registered with Mastodon and have been using it for 8 months. I will share my impressions of the "internet of the future" in this article.
What is Fediverse
Fediverse is the collective name for a network of decentralized services linked together by the ActivityPub protocol. To put it simply, it is a collection of federated services such as Mastodon, Pleroma, and Peertube.
What is a Federation
Federation refers to the principle of service organization, in which a service runs on a set of separate autonomous servers that form a single network. This can be compared to e-mail: users of different sites can write letters to each other, regardless of which of them they are registered on, be it Gmail, Yandex or Tutanota. The advantage of this approach is that there are no principals in this network, no center. Such a decentralized network does not lend itself to censorship and control, it is extremely resistant to blocking, attacks and other external influences. At the same time, the servers are dispersed throughout the planet and controlled by different people. Let's consider an example of such a service.
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Thanks for reading! Share your opinion in the comments. See you on Fediverse!