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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