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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 (1 children)

Depends how you look at it! Here’s me accessing Mastodon and the fediverse via email: https://lemmy.world/post/11020167 I’ve written a a couple more prototypes to connect one to the other. If anyone is interested I could write up more about how it works or do a more public demo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's pretty cool, especially given we've all used the "federated, like email" example to describe the fediverse.

I'm curious about identity: does this require an account on an ActivityPub enabled server, or is there a possibility of tricking AP instances into parsing an email address as a profile URL?

Would definitely be interested in seeing something like this explained. It would be weirdly cool if newsletters and mailing lists entered federation space (Star Trek pun very much intended).