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Christine Lemmer-Webber@cwebber@social.coop (2026-06-18 06:26:58)
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 (2026-06-18 06:27:35)
Hi everyone I was wondering if someone could explain SMTP to me? Thanks!!!!

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Irenes (many)@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space (2026-06-18 07:12:52)
@cwebber the Smurf Mutant Turtle Protocol is for negotiating business deals surrounding Saturday-morning cartoon crossovers.

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!@losttourist@social.chatty.monster (2026-06-18 06:28:01)
@cwebber HELO!

Jon@jdp23@neuromatch.social (2026-06-18 06:35:26)
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

Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️‍⚧️@Orca@nya.one (2026-06-18 06:43:35)
@cwebber@social.coop Well obviously it stands for Soliciting Mainsplaining Trivially Protocol ​:neocat_catmode:​

Benjamin Bouvier 🥐@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party (2026-06-18 06:43:57)
@cwebber the Simple Marketing Transport Protocol is primarily used to send spams and other unsolicited advertisements (if I've understood correctly its primary purpose!)

Hannah (Neobot delivery! :neobot_box:)@hannah@moonserver.yorha.nexus (2026-06-18 06:44:38)
@cwebber@social.coop It's like the fediverse! All the servers speak ActivityPub with each other... but everyone can host their own!

nicole mikołajczyk@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl (2026-06-18 06:45:45)
@cwebber imagine Bluesky DMs but decentralized

Byte@Byte@rage.love (2026-06-18 07:02:21)
@cwebber SMTP is like…

Okay I have tried various jokes but I straight up can’t beat “fax but digital over the internet”

Good on the person who made that joke first

illegal instruction@be@floss.social (2026-06-18 07:24:20)
@cwebber It's like email.

avatastic  :enby_draig:@avatastic@avatastic.uk (2026-06-18 07:24:46)
@cwebber first you connect to your server and say HELO, it's very important to politely greet it. then you say who you are, and who you want to talk to, then you deposit your message, then you finish with a cr/lf then a period, then another cr/lf.

BetaRays@BetaRays@p.changeme.fr.eu.org (2026-06-18 08:02:10)
@cwebber It’s something about hostage negociation with a guy named “spamhaus”.