I don’t think so, no. They probably would have said so if it was.

I wonder if they are open to patches that would make it federated.

I've got a note about this in the FAQ (https://docs.tildes.net/faq#why-isnt-tildes-decentralizeddis...):

> Why isn't Tildes decentralized/distributed/federated?

> Decentralized communities are interesting and have a lot of potential, but that model also introduces its own problems and difficulties. Tildes is already attempting to do quite a few things differently to improve the quality of online communities, and I'm more interested in focusing on those goals without introducing the additional complexity of decentralization.

> However, since Tildes is open-source, someone else could certainly use it as a base for their own decentralized version.

I'm not interested in running a decentralized version myself, but I'd love to see someone else try to make it work.

Thanks for responding about that here, did not expect that :)

How do you get an account there?

Just send me an email - the address and more info about the site are in the announcement post (offer's open to anyone else that's interested too): https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

I send out invites daily. It's not intended to be difficult to get an account, I just want to prevent it from getting out of control when it gets a huge burst of attention due to situations like a subreddit getting banned.

Thank you! I reached out