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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
davey_cakes@mastodon.ie ("Davey") wrote:

@cwebber it's pronounced Smmmmmm-tup and it's the sequel to Mmmbop

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
virtulis@loud.computer ("will have been preventable") wrote:

@cwebber it's a protocol that's so simple and reliable we've spent decades trying to fix that, to no avail

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

Sure!

SMTP stands for Straightforward Mastodon 'Tivity Pub, and it's the mapping of Mastodon's database to the ActivityPub standard that you may have heard of. (It's not called SMAP because in Latin SMAP is a synonym for 'Jack Dorsey'.). In this thread I shall ... (1/666)

@cwebber

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
arielmt@computerfairi.es ("Ariel Millennium Thornton") wrote:

@cwebber It stands for "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol," but not one of those four words has been true since the 1970s.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Yuvalne@433.world ("Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️") wrote:

@chrislowles @cwebber SMTP: snail mail through pipes (because as we all know, the internet is like a series of tubes).

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ridley@hachyderm.io ("Ridley") wrote:

@cwebber Yepp. It's one of the tools I use to evaluate my ideas. "Is this going to go the way SMTP did?"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
beckermatic@mastodon.la ("♿ La Pantera Roja 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@cwebber
SMTP stands for: Snails Marching Towards Plants. Is a plant-protection protocol (PPP) that's being replaced by IMAP (Iñigo Montoya Avenged his Pa).

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

In 1936, Jesse Owens went to Berlin & humiliated Hitler’s theory of Aryan supremacy on the world’s most visible athletic stage—then came home to a White House that wouldn't let him in.

90 years later, the World Cup is on American soil & it's Trump keeping the Iranian team and Omar Artan out.

This week is Juneteenth. In today’s article, I lay out three undeniable examples of how America’s history of racism is alive & thriving today.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ban-on-irans-soccer-team-revives

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the chili pepper plants seem to be doing okay

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

great… our Congresscritter has an AI-support network PAC putting out ads to get him reelected. deniable, hidden money sources, and not open about why they support him. Joe Morelle is a tool.

we need to get ‘dark money’ out of our politics

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
fraggle@social.coop wrote:

@losttourist @cwebber EHLO!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
losttourist@social.chatty.monster ("Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!") wrote:

@cwebber HELO!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
stibbons@s.scintilla.social wrote:

@cwebber Well look, it's just like this other thing you might have heard of, the "fediverse".

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
chrislowles ("Chris Lowles") wrote:

@cwebber so it's like snail mail but it's digital

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

As a side note, SMTP is my favorite cautionary tale of how decentralized protocols can become centralized over time

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
4censord@unfug.social ("4 "sparkling fire" censord :nfp:") wrote:

@cwebber you know what fax is?
its like that but with the internet

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Hi everyone I was wondering if someone could explain SMTP to me? Thanks!!!!

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I'm glad to see Mastodon will be adopting the world's most popular decentralized social networking protocol: SMTP https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/mastodon-looks-to-newsletters-to-help-revive-the-open-social-web/

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

*pats self on head* this girl can store so many cursed licensing musings in her

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Whew I barely got out of there alive I guess it's a good thing I didn't pose the followup musing about whether renders are effectively compiled object code and .blend files are corresponding source code

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Me: "Blender's geometry nodes are actually a programming language! A purely functional combinator language where artists often don't even KNOW they're programming!"

*audience cheering wildly*

Me: "That also means .blend files with geometry nodes are probably subject to reciporical licensing terms of the GPL"

*audience booing and throwing rotten vegetables*

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116767120354406560

become a Buddhist monk and go into seclusion, or threaten XCode if it doesn’t behave

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I picked up a cursed timeline in nethack and now it's stuck to my body

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

While I honestly think these will be a good product that will resonate with the public, I can’t deny they’re pretty ugly. Hopefully Snap can figure out a way to make them fashionable, because these aren’t.

——

Introducing SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses https://newsroom.snap.com/introducing-specs-augmented-reality-glasses

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Mastodon wrote:

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Mastodon wrote:

A big new release after months of work is a good time to mention that #Mastodon is crowdfunded. Unlike many other platforms out there, we don’t take venture capital, we don’t sell ads, and we don’t sell your data. We rely on your donations to pay our team. Please consider chipping in:

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnnaAnthro ("Anna Anthro") wrote:

#Starbucks #Korea to shut all its 2000 stores & cafes for all its staff to have history classes & sensitivity training following its disastrous ‘Tank Day’ promotion.

Large coffee mug promos were linked to a national memorial day for the Gwangju protestors killed by tanks & army in 1980.

A massive angry public outcry lead to boycotts and petitions.

Owner of Starbucks in South Korea is a right-wing Trump-supporting billionaire businessman.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/starbucks-korea-shut-all-stores-tank-day-promotion

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116767453176359501

the step by step horror of using Other People’s Code Modules

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

I have been asked to have a personality. This is my best attempt. 'screaming tty': [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/screaming-tty.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#PrideMonth #CounterProtest #LGBTQ #ReligionIsPoison #Pride