i think it might in theory

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    234·
    9 months ago

    Fediverse is ActivityPub. Email is not, though the theory is somewhat similar.

      • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        84·
        9 months ago

        The others listed are bluesky, nostra and farcast. I suppose we could count protocols that nobody uses…

          • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            51·
            9 months ago

            The mention of email is

            Even so, much like how users of one email service such as Gmail can still send emails to users of another service such as Outlook, users may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in the fediverse

            which implicitly says email is not considered part of the fediverse by comparing the two.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      fair enough, i wonder if there are lessons to learn from email that can help the fediverse

      • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
        63·
        9 months ago

        Well for one, email is inherently insecure, so not sure if the fediverse can learn from that. It’s already not private.

          • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            9 months ago

            Exactly, that was my point. Email as it is, is insecure, because you can’t encrypt it and make it work universally unless everyone else does.

              • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                9 months ago

                English isn’t my first language so I might be using “inherently” incorrectly, but I thought it means:

                in a way that exists as a natural or basic part of something

                So in its basic and natural form, email is not secure. It wasn’t designed as such. Full E2E encryption was only implemented recently by certain providers within their own domains, and won’t work across the board unless all of them cooperate, which won’t happen.

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    People have different definitions of “the fediverse”. To some people fediverse is ActivityPub, but to some people it is any federated protocol.

    SMTP is a federated protocol, so some people would consider it part of the fediverse.

    POP3 isn’t federated, it is standardized but different POP3 servers don’t connect to each other in regular process of the protocol.

  • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    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

  • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    If Email was sorted into “public” and “private” it could be.

    Theoretically a RSS reader is similar tech where it fetches all these sources, so in this case fetching public email account data.

    Of course upvotes, badges, etc would need to be handled by a 3rd party service unless you made them public and added them to the email chain.

  • shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    I think email is federated, but it’s not a social network in the usual sense of the word. You don’t have public feeds and profiles and such. Mailing lists are probably the closest thing, but you still have to subscribe to those to receive messages.