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Do you know something about wikr?

This looks like another monolith-messenger aka gated community. And they abusing the tem "Federation". As far as I understand they don't federate. They just writing users are able to communicate with each other.

Wickrs abusive definition of #federation
Users within one Wickr network can communicate with partners in other Wickr networks while still maintaining security and ephemerality controls.

https://wickr.com/
Tobias
Tobias 6 days ago
Jain, depends on how you define some words. Something federates if your service is communicating with the service of somebody else. That was the initial use I heard from Even when the first Laconica nodes appeared alongside of identi.ca. From that point, any decentralized networking platform federates among the nodes of the platform, but IMO this is a meaningless sentence as I would expect that from a decentral communication thingy.
hoergen
hoergen 6 days ago from fediverseration
In a modern understanding of federation this equals to decentralization. In my opinion they try to jump on a train they are not on with playing Bullshit Bingo.
Michael_MD
Michael_MD 6 days ago
haven't heard of that one

re: federation

"communicating with the service of somebody else."

I guess in the most general sense thats basically what the word means.

If their service doesn't talk to any other then they are clearly misusing the word in any case.
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