@ShaulaEvans @mastodonmigration @ben If you are talking about the concept of federated services, I don’t have a specific article, but one good explanation is to describe it in terms of email.
No single company “owns” email. If you have a gmail account, you can send messages to people who use outlook, AOL, and yahoo mail (and vice versa) and it Just Works.
You can have a mailing list with users from all those services, and anyone subscribing to that list will get messages you send to the list. It Just Works.
If you get unhappy with your current email service, you can move your contact list over to some other provider, and, again, everything Just Works.
Now imagine that sort of process, using it for sending tweets (Mastodon) or images (Pixelfed). You find a provider you like, and anyone subscribed to you sees anything you post. You see everything posted by people you subscribe to. It Just Works.
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