• Frozzie
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    1111 months 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
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      311 months 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
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        511 months 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.