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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:27:18 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   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/

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:27:54 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:31:14 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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

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     Michael Bacon (michaeltbacon@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:34:49 JST Michael Bacon

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     @cwebber

     Well actually SMTP stands for Standard Male Technical Pedantry.

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     Chris Lowles (chrislowles@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:36:25 JST Chris Lowles

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

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     🫧 Social coding commons (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:37:10 JST 🫧 Social coding commons

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     @cwebber

     SMTP stands for Sometimes Phishing 🎣

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     ♿ La Pantera Roja 🏳️‍🌈 (beckermatic@mastodon.la)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:42:49 JST ♿ La Pantera Roja 🏳️‍🌈

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     @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).

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     Ariel Millennium Thornton (arielmt@computerfairi.es)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:43:39 JST Ariel Millennium Thornton

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

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     Jon (jdp23@neuromatch.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:43:56 JST Jon

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     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)

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     Flaki (flaki@flaki.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:45:13 JST Flaki

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

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     Davey (davey_cakes@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:45:33 JST Davey

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

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     Softwarewolf (faoluin@chitter.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:47:18 JST Softwarewolf

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

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     Furbland's Very Family-Friendly Account™ (groupnebula563@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:47:58 JST Furbland's Very Family-Friendly Account™

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

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     will have been preventable (virtulis@loud.computer)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:48:08 JST will have been preventable

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

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     Benjamin Bouvier 🥐 (bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:48:30 JST Benjamin Bouvier 🥐

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     @cwebber the Simple Marketing Transport Protocol is primarily used to send spams and other unsolicited advertisements (if I've understood correctly its primary purpose!)

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     Orca? | ??️‍⚧️ (orca@nya.one)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:49:01 JST Orca? | ??️‍⚧️

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     @cwebber@social.coop Well obviously it stands for Soliciting Mainsplaining Trivially Protocol :neocat_catmode:
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     Benjamin Bouvier 🥐 (bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:50:24 JST Benjamin Bouvier 🥐

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     @cwebber (gosh sorry i hadn't realized there was another 10000 dudes also trying to come up with funny answers)

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     craignicol (craignicol@glasgow.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 06:50:48 JST craignicol

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     @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? 😮

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 07:00:54 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Benjamin Bouvier 🥐

     @bnjbvr you must be new to my threads

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 08:03:33 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • BetaRays

     @BetaRays oh this one is really good

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     BetaRays (betarays@p.changeme.fr.eu.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 08:03:34 JST BetaRays

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     @cwebber It’s something about hostage negociation with a guy named “spamhaus”.