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.
Lemmy is like Reddit, but federated. And everyone describes federation as being like email. Therefore, Reddit + email = Lemmy, so Lemmy - email = Reddit
(this is a bad joke that requires you to buy into a bunch of premises to begin with, I’m glad some people here got it though)
What’s Reddit?
On a second thought, let’s not go to Reddit, tis a silly place.
According to how people try to simplify things here,
Lemmy - Email = Reddit
What does Lemmy have to do with email?
Lemmy runs on the ActivityPub protocol, which works basically like an email address. Check out “How the Fediverse works” on your browser or YouTube.
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
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.
Yeah that’s a weird analogy.
is decentralized
Lemmy is like Reddit, but federated. And everyone describes federation as being like email. Therefore, Reddit + email = Lemmy, so Lemmy - email = Reddit
(this is a bad joke that requires you to buy into a bunch of premises to begin with, I’m glad some people here got it though)
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Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the analogy either, it’s just the only federated thing people know about 😭
Just an isolated kinda-lemmy instance. Not worth it.
A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
Lemmy but for squares; like pants are for squares
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