# 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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![haiku](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/haiku/32/103858_2.png) [@haiku](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haiku) #### Post date: [August 27, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-features/18982/4 "2014-08-27T21:20:57Z")
What you want is perfectly possible, there’s an API for creating and editing posts: it just hasn’t been done yet. What’s the use case for having one post appear on multiple sites? If it’s for resilience, surely that would be better achieved using a CDN instead of unnecessarily duplicating the data? If it’s to combine multiple forums into one central superforum, again that can be better achieved without duplicating posts. I’m too young to have used NNTP or newsgroups, so I’m unfamiliar with how those worked. 😛 And what is [fed.soc.net](http://fed.soc.net)? I can see the value of integrating with other services, I can imagine a plugin which syncs posts between a Discourse category and a Facebook group being used, for example. I think it has been requested before. But you would only need to duplicate the data if you do not have control of the other platform - imo duplicating content introduces a point of failure you don’t need to have The federation feature I think _is_ worth pursuing is federated profiles - there’s some discussion on that here: > [@Revitalizing the Discourse Hub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029): > > The original basic idea of the Discourse Hub have a reserved @username across all Discourse instances, so when someone sees @username on any Discourse forum, they’ll know it is (probably) you! … seems like kind of a bad idea in retrospect. Why? Well, if you run your own Discourse, and your name is @david, you probably want to be called @david, even if some other David reserved the name in Feburary 2013 here on meta. It is your community, after all, who are we to tell you that you can’t use y… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-features/18982)._