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)
The email analogy always sounded weird to me, especially when you want to explain lemmy to a reddit user. It’s much easier to describe it as interconnected reddit websites, where anyone can host their own site and you can sign up with any site you want and interact with posts/users on other reddit sites.
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
Yeah that’s a weird analogy.
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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)
The email analogy always sounded weird to me, especially when you want to explain lemmy to a reddit user. It’s much easier to describe it as interconnected reddit websites, where anyone can host their own site and you can sign up with any site you want and interact with posts/users on other reddit sites.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the analogy either, it’s just the only federated thing people know about 😭