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Does email (SMTP/POP3) count as a member of the fediverse? (lemmy.world)
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i think it might in theory

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[–] otl@hachyderm.io 1 points 8 months ago

@jimmy90 @zeppo For sure. One major lesson off the top of my head is with ActivityPub is how errors are presented. I’ve written software to fiddle around with ActivityPub and found servers have terrible - if any - error messages. SMTP provides a bunch of standardised status codes that servers can give back to you, along with diagnostic info. In theory this is possible with apub but in practice it is not addressed at all.

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