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Does email (SMTP/POP3) count as a member of the fediverse? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i think it might in theory

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The mention of email is

Even so, much like how users of one email service such as Gmail can still send emails to users of another service such as Outlook, users may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in the fediverse

which implicitly says email is not considered part of the fediverse by comparing the two.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

It seems like reading comprehension is not what it used to be.

"Much like" == "very similar too" AKA, "close, but no cigar"

You wouldn't compare something to the same something, that's kind of the point of comparisons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

that’s not what the quoted text says at all… let’s rephrase this:

much like how users of one lemmy service such as lemmy.world can still reply to users of another service such as kbin.social, users may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in bluesky

this doesn’t say that lemmy/kbin isn’t part of the fediverse. it takes no position on that fact, merely saying that the things conceptually work in a similar manner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your rephrasing changed it qualitatively. Of course it takes no position on whether Lemmy is part of the Fediverse considering it now does not have the word Fediverse in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is the "fediverse" some sort of secret club that I'm unaware of or something?

The whole idea of the "fediverse" is that some aspect of it is cross-company, and federated across instances. Email fits that term exactly. The wiki entry doesn't exclude email via the comparison, if anything it makes more of an argument that email is one of the first federated services to exist. The "fediverse" is just the collection of those federated services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You can call it whatever you want. Email has been around since the 70s. Bluesky and ActivityPub sure have not.