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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

What does Lemmy have to do with email?

[-] Frozzie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Lemmy runs on the ActivityPub protocol, which works basically like an email address. Check out "How the Fediverse works" on your browser or YouTube.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I knew about ActivityPub but it still doesn't really seem to have anything in common with email to me other than the @ symbols...

/me shrugs

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

It's not just the @ symbols. It's the fact that both are federated systems. Lemmy is federated because a user of aussie.zone can interact with a user of lemmy.world.

Email is federated because a user of gmail.com can interact with a user of outlook.com.

It's about the fact that they each work on an open standard and anyone who implements that standard can communicate with anyone else who also does.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah that’s a weird analogy.

[-] sour@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

is decentralized

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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