Sometimes I struggle to convey what continues to fascinate me about dezentraly organized social media - its like explaining to someone who never played Go why its awesome who never played it.

And what I would usually recommend is (in the case of Go): watch hikaru no go (popular Go anime). I could teach them the rules, but to capture the spirit of it, I would also need to spend hours playing it with them. So instead, I give them an awesome series, which conveys the drama, fights, frustrations through story.

Would that also work for the fediverse? Sometimes I tend to get lost in technical details and how it tries to solve problems about moderation without conveing any of the daily drama and excitement I have - so what would be a good series/film/anime/book/comic that could convey this? Or do we need to create it?

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    I usually explain it simply:

    “Do you use email?” “Yeh” “It works similar doesn’t matter which provider you choose Proton, G-mail, Yahoo and your mail can go to all of the others.”

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I tell people it’s like signing up for a newsletter with your email, except the newsletter is also your social media feed.

    • @blue_berryOP
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      11 year ago

      Right and that explains it well. But it doesn’t exactly get people excited or make them understand what it FEELS like to be part of a federated social network.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        It’s weird that you think people should be excited. This is just a forum for discussion, there’s really nothing exciting about it.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝
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        11 year ago

        If there’s too much excitement and drama, something has gone wrong.

        I tended to just send people links to communities they might like them follow up with an explanation of what Lemmy is, if asked. Bit boring I know.