Possibly linux to [email protected]English • 2 years agoLet's spread out lemmys userbase so that a single instance can't take out large chunks of the networklemmy.zipimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1355
arrow-up1344imageLet's spread out lemmys userbase so that a single instance can't take out large chunks of the networklemmy.zipPossibly linux to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squareAltima NEOlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoI’m probably not the right person to explain it as I still only have a rudimentary understand of it.
minus-square⁂Krafty⁂linkfedilink1•2 years ago@embrcrndm @altima_neo I’ll just say this: I’m currently sending this from Mastodon. Your instance and my instance both use the ActivityPub protocol which is likened to email by many people.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoIt’s like email. With email, if you have a @gmail.com address you can communicate with @hotmail.com addresses. Well, with lemmy/mastodon/whatever they work the same way. Users don’t have to all be on the same server to interact with each other.
Would you mind doing a quick “ELI5”?
I’m probably not the right person to explain it as I still only have a rudimentary understand of it.
Thanks anyway. I’ll read up!
@embrcrndm @altima_neo I’ll just say this: I’m currently sending this from Mastodon. Your instance and my instance both use the ActivityPub protocol which is likened to email by many people.
Whoa shit, that’s awesome!!
@embrcrndm No kidding :)
Welcome to the #fediverse!
It’s like email. With email, if you have a @gmail.com address you can communicate with @hotmail.com addresses.
Well, with lemmy/mastodon/whatever they work the same way. Users don’t have to all be on the same server to interact with each other.