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How are Lemmy federated servers handling cross platform posting, commenting and upvoting? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What are some good resources to learn and get an overview of how federation between servers is actually handled?

I am aware that data is shared / duplicated between instances, but I want to know the actual technical scope of it – and how is the data flowing and being stored.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Take a look at the documentation of Lemmy.

The server-to-server communication uses the ActivityPub protocol