# Discourse without company **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-without-company/220173 **Category:** General **Created:** [March 5, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-without-company/220173 "2022-03-05T22:46:16Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [March 6, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-without-company/220173/5 "2022-03-06T20:55:33Z")
This has been discussed here: > [@Federation support for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921): > > The mail goal of this feature is to connect all the Discourse communities like how [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) makes use of global and local feeds to maintain a healthy and decentralized network of Mastodon instances which allows a user from one instance to connect, follow, and discuss on topics of another instance. I think this will open up a lot of new features for Discourse. The benefit Imagine being able to just connect to your own local community and then be able to get news about other topics from other Di… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-without-company/220173)._