minus-squaregronapa@lemmy.fmhy.mltoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Federation is pretty coollinkfedilinkarrow-up21·edit-21 year agoThis is the one that clicked for me credit to Matthieu@piaille.fr You can think of it like emails. A lemmy community is like an automated mailbox that sends everything they receive to all subscribers. You can host a mailing list/community on gmail. Then you can subscribe to the mailing list from outlook. Then a user can send a post to the mailing list from yahoo. The automated mailbox at gmail will receive the message from yahoo and send it to outlook and all other subscribers. linkfedilink
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arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareWhat kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows?plus-squaregronapa@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square76fedilink
This is the one that clicked for me credit to Matthieu@piaille.fr
You can think of it like emails.
A lemmy community is like an automated mailbox that sends everything they receive to all subscribers.
You can host a mailing list/community on gmail.
Then you can subscribe to the mailing list from outlook.
Then a user can send a post to the mailing list from yahoo.
The automated mailbox at gmail will receive the message from yahoo and send it to outlook and all other subscribers.