• Frozzie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        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
          English
          41·
          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.zoneEnglish
            72·
            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.