Concepts

In order to better understand FIRES, there are several guiding concepts that are worth understanding. We've also published the project background to help explain the context in which FediMod FIRES has been created.

• Federation Management – using policies to control what we accept, filter, reject, and ignore when federating.
• Managing Changes – managing moderation decisions changing over time.
  • Advisories
  • Recommendations
  • Retractions
  • Tombstones
• Entities – the support types of entities.
• Filters – using filters as part of federation management.
• Labels – organising moderation decisions using shared vocabularies of labels.

Additionally, there are some definitions for what a data consumer, data provider, and label provider are, that can be helpful to read first.