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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
GroupNebula563 ("Furbland's Very Cool Account™") wrote:

@cwebber okay so you know activitypub. it's kind of like that but with mail. so you know how on activitypub each instance-

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

@cwebber

Well actually SMTP stands for Standard Male Technical Pedantry.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
faoluin@chitter.xyz ("Softwarewolf") wrote:

@cwebber A bunch of electrons move around and suddenly a boomer meme shows up in your inbox

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smallcircles@social.coop ("🫧 Social coding commons") wrote:

@cwebber

SMTP stands for Sometimes Phishing 🎣

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

@cwebber you know how on the Fediverse you can send a message to anyone, even on another server? It's like that for DMs with no character limit. I believe they're still working on e2e encryption though. We'll get an interoperable solution any day now...

Wait, does this mean every email account can be counted as a Fediverse user? 😮

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

@cwebber it's like a chatbot, except it does precisely what you type it to do (for better or worse)

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

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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.

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