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Email is the oldest Federated service. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by nodsocket@lemmy.world to c/technology

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I was struggling to wrap my head around how federated social media works until I realized that email has basically been doing the same thing for 30 years. Different email servers are like instances of a federated network. You can send emails to people from within a single server or you can send emails to people on any other mail server. Your email address is a username followed by an '@' and the server address, just like on Lemmy. Email is a decentralized service I've been using the whole time!

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Also, DNS, and routing protocols. The Internet was designed for it. Walled gardens are an affectation of capital used to create the artificial scarcities it then exploits.

[–] Captain_Wtv@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Remember forums? They were toxics. But legit most of my issues with hardware can be solved on forums.

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