• 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.