• FrozzieEnglish
        11•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.worldEnglish
          3•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

          • ZagorathEnglish
            5•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.