RGartner 27 de October, 2025 🎧 Listen on other platforms [Spotify] Search for RGartner Audios, Español, English, Português, Français, Italiano, Hindi (हिंदी) [Apple Podcasts] Search for RGartner Audios, Español, English, Português, Français, Italiano, Hindi (हिंदी) English ‘What is the Fediverse, Mastodon, and Decentralized Applications? Servers To understand the Fediverse, we first need to understand what a server is. Your server is much like a router; it has inputs and outputs to perform tasks. Your computer could be a server if you configure it a certain way. Imagine you have videos to share and want to do it from your home. If your computer is now a server, you could share those videos from your house. You would need to create a website with another computer using software like WordPress and connect it to your computer-server. With this system, the general public would visit that website, see thumbnails of your videos, click on one, and a signal would be sent to your computer-server. It receives this request as an input and, as an output, sends the video signal to the web for the public to see. Depending on bandwidth, this can take milliseconds, thanks to technological advances like 5G. Broadly speaking, this is a server: as its name implies, it provides a service of input and output for content like videos, audio, and all types of data.
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