Federation can be implemented in different ways:
ActivityPub is horizontal federation, each instance talks to each instance independent of relays or any other intermediate.
AT proto is vertical federation, each instance (PDS) depends on a relay (BGS) which crawls and distributes posts, like an intermediate in between.
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2024-02-13 16:23:33Event JSON
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