KingStrafeIV@midwest.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Twitter traffic is 'tanking' as Meta's Threads hits 100 million users
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1 year agoIt’s more like realizing that you’re surrounded by fire, so you might as well pick a patch with a nice view.
It’s more like realizing that you’re surrounded by fire, so you might as well pick a patch with a nice view.
They’re definitely different, just found it ironic.
It’s due to a feature of lemmy called “Federation”. It allows independently hosted instances to communicate with each other, without actually hosting each other’s data.
There is some technical details here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/federation_getting_started.html#federation.
Basically your home base is startek.website, and the maintainers of your home base have determined that they want to be able to interact with other bases. Anything you contribute to a base belongs to that base, but passes through your home base.
“No such thing as bad publicity” comes to mind.