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I like to think of MS as the Borg, cold, robotic, claiming to be superior and LL as Species 8472, the unknown, the underestimated, peaceful until messed with. Then the next natural question is, who are The Federation?
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Ah yes, the Federation! That's what people in the decentralized, federated, open-source social networks call themselves. Diaspora (like FarceBook), Mastodon (like Twitter), Friendica (blogging). After the whole Facebook / Google spying scandals, "the Federation" is drawing lots of new users lately.
What is federation? Think of it like e-mail. Many providers, not all on one massive centralized server, but decentralized. Yet able to reach anywhere. It's kinda cool. I've been giving it another shot lately after a prior bad experience, and it looks like it's really improving.
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"The Federation is like root beer. It's all sweet and bubbly! But once you drink enough of it, you begin to like it."
Real quote but reciting from memory of about 20 years ago

If you can guess where is comes from (WITHOUT Google), you WIN!
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