• scottywh@lemmy.world
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    11 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

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      11 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.