Mark Gardner on Nostr: No, this is exactly what “federated” means. Multiple services exchange messages, ...

No, this is exactly what “federated” means. Multiple services exchange messages, but any single service only knows about the messages it sends and receives.

Server admins can also subscribe to relays that push content from other servers.

Here is the primer from the #Mastodon docs: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/#federation

And here is the description of federated and local timelines: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/network/#timelines

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