# Federation features

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-features/18982>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 18, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-features/18982 "2014-08-18T02:27:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaelmd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@michaelmd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaelmd)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-features/18982/3 "2014-08-27T04:54:14Z")

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forums where posts are delivered to different sites ..

eg.  
a forum mirrored on multiple sites  
(like an nntp newsgroup is mirrored on multiple nntp servers. would be great for public forums where you don’t want one site being down to mean the whole forum is also down.  
related communities could have shared forums where posts appear on all participating sites)

also

a way for peopls to have posts delivered to their own page/feed/blog/profile on another site (common [fed.soc.net](http://fed.soc.net) scenario - far better than just subscribing to a one-way rss feed - users could do authenticated replies/comments etc)

there are plenty of use cases and possibilities but it all involves posts being delivered from a site to another site and displayed somewhere there (and not just one-way)

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