• Zagorath
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    1 year ago

    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.