Distributed coordination without surrendering local authority.
Federation in Social Fabric is about sharing what should be shared, preserving what must remain local, and coordinating across nodes, organizations, and scopes with explicit trust, visibility, and conflict rules.
Local nodes and scopes
Social Fabric supports local node, site, organization, watershed-cluster, mesh-commons, and broader public scopes. Federation does not erase local authority; it coordinates across it.
Replication with boundaries
Replication is governed through explicit federation policy, scope rules, visibility handling, and trust-zone constraints rather than blind synchronization.
Conflict handling
Conflict rules, escalation roles, and resolution modes help communities preserve authoritative records while still participating in distributed coordination.
Shared versus tenant authority
The platform distinguishes shared infrastructure surfaces from tenant-controlled or controller-owned authority surfaces, so convenience does not quietly swallow accountability.