• Frozzie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          1 year 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.worldEnglish
            41·
            1 year 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
              62·
              1 year 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.

          • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            The email analogy always sounded weird to me, especially when you want to explain lemmy to a reddit user. It’s much easier to describe it as interconnected reddit websites, where anyone can host their own site and you can sign up with any site you want and interact with posts/users on other reddit sites.