federate

Example Sentences

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Mastodon is what is known as a federated platform, meaning it is a collection of social networks — or servers — that link together but are owned by different people or groups.

From New York Times

The federated approach has downsides: it is harder to find people to follow in Mastodon's anarchic sprawl then on the neatly ordered town square that centrally administered Twitter or Facebook can offer.

From Reuters

The labor movement is well situated for this, because locals within the unions are federated but have a national coordinating mechanism.

From Salon

We are focused on getting to scale more quickly in H2 now that we’ve federated into our five key innovation centers.

From The Verge

Canada comprises local and provincial governments gathered into a federated whole, like the United States.

From Washington Post