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is there an email Fediverse thingy?
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Yeah they're not compatible, Fediverse uses the ActivityPub protocol and email uses the SMTP protocol. There is and was an SMTP based system with very similar architecture to the Fediverse. It's called Usenet which is one of the original TCP/IP services dating back to the invention of the internet. It was popular in its time, but has mostly fallen into obscurity. Usenet is still around, but mainly used for file sharing these days. Back in its day you commonly accessed it with an email client, but modern email clients don't support it. Though there's still modern Usenet clients out there.