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Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. (lemmy.world)
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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 83 points 11 months ago (7 children)

What's Reddit?

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 84 points 11 months ago

On a second thought, let's not go to Reddit, tis a silly place.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What does Lemmy have to do with email?

[–] Frozzie@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy runs on the ActivityPub protocol, which works basically like an email address. Check out "How the Fediverse works" on your browser or YouTube.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months 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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah that’s a weird analogy.

[–] sour@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

is decentralized

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] SVcross@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Just an isolated kinda-lemmy instance. Not worth it.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Lemmy but for squares; like pants are for squares