Not even big instances, but big platforms I would say. Like, if you're lucky someone might have heard about Mastodon, but that's pretty much it.
“Ah yes the Dinosaur mato thing? Failed twitter alternative right?”
(actual quote from a convo I’ve had)
Even the word "Instance" is unnecessary gatekeeping jargon.
I’ve never felt like a bigger idiot than when I try to explain the fediverse to normal people.
I find it easier if the other person is a podcast listener.
"You know how podcast ads usually say 'listen to it in Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts?' It's a bit like that."
If not, I have to say something weak or complicated like "it's a bit like email, dunno how to explain this if you have never thought about how email works, though".
That's a really good analogy.
The email one works too once they realize they've never actually thought about what an email is. Like:
"If I send you an email from gmail, you can open it in outlook, right?" "Yeah"
"That's because an email is just a file that both gmail and outlook can use" "makes sense"
"Can I see your Twitter post on Reddit?" "No of course not"
"But i can see Lemmy (Reddit) posts on Mastodon (Twitter). And these apps aren't owned by huge companies. Normal people run each instance, and the software is free for anyone to use or host."
I've heard that you can view Lemmy posts on Mastodon and vice versa, but I can't wrap my head around it. I don't think I've ever seen a Mastodon post on Lemmy, or maybe I have and just didn't realize it?
What's a Lemmy post on Mastodon look like? And what's a Mastodon post on Lemmy look like?
!testfediverse@jlai.lu has a few examples
I usually start with email, but I wonder if podcasts would be smarter. when I read what you said, my first thought was"but podcasts require you to upload to every instance that you want to be seen on" and then I realized that for the people that are just trying to get content this doesn't matter. That's actually genius.
Hey.. so you know about Email, right?
How you're with Gmail and I with.. say Proton. And we can still send Emails to each other? ...
Is my go to approach
That's a pretty good analogy.
I always start with, ok, so you know the internet is basically a series of tubes right? Once we are on the same page about that, I start talking about ipv4 and ipv6 including a mention of dual stack supporting instances.
Dude don't stop talking right when we're on supporting dual stacks. I'm on the subway and the entire car is about to get off but now we're just sad
At some point do you overlay it on the OSI model?
For those on traditional social media, I just say "What if Facebook and Twitter and YouTube could all talk to each other? People on Facebook could follow people on Twitter and people on Twitter can follow people on Facebook." Then they usually reply "that would be neat" and then I tell them "yeah, that's what we are building over here in the fediverse."
It usually is easier to give them an analogy related to something they are familiar with.
Ironically as a fediverse user I had a visceral reaction to reading that. That sounds like absolute nightmare fuel to me...
I actually have separate accounts on the different fediverse products - for me it’s the decentralization of instances that’s the most appealing.
Duh, she is the fediverse chick after all
It's so annoying to me because she kinda looks like an ex with the same name
Your ex was named Fediverse Chick?
Ya. Why? Is that weird?
People have named their kids weirder things, so who am I to judge?
You mean to tell me there's some kid out there named Weirder Things?
Pretty sure Netflix made a whole series about them.
I know she is, but its kind of creepy.
It's no longer as humorous as she was at first withe them whole shit j. The world and the content just makes me worry it's something else that we ~~Rob ok~~ can't control.
Edit : ok that happened a second time this morning why the fuck am I dosing off suddenly and not realizing I didn't check before I hit save?
Even after coming back to it, this looks like you were having a stroke mid-type.
[off topic?] When William Gibson was researching 'Neuromancer' he spent a lot of time hanging out with hackers. They'd tell stories and he'd catch about a quarter of what they were talking about.
When it came to write the book he decided that he'd make the book like that, the reader would have to push though a lot of things that didn't make sense until they acquired more information.
What is misskey? I am a fediverse user and I don't even know what that is.
Best way I can describe misskey as a user of it is that it's like mastodon but if they implemented every feature request possible. I mean it literally has a toggle to convert your text into cat speak for no other reason other than the dev felt like it. It even has its own markdown language to give your text crazy effects because who wouldn't want an emoji amplified 4 times that spins and changes color?
It uses activitypub as well so it's entirely interoperable with mastodon instances (although some functions like quote posts or the custom markdown language aren't formatted as nicely when viewed from a mastodon instance)
I don't even know who Nicole is???
Nicole, the fediverse chick
A yeah, Nicole hit me yesterday again. 😂😂😂
Whats the story on this? I had it in my inbox too a few days ago.
Has anyone explored the links and survived to report back?
That was something some weeks ago. One guy did an analysis from all these links and came to conclusion that maybe is her ex as revenge or something like that. But dunno really.
Goddamnit! I love this and want to share it, but don't know anyone else that will appreciate it. Is this.. irony?
It is cyclical fate
Story of my life. I'm so annoyed when the response is to try to get me to shut up my flattering my intelligence. "Wow you use big words, anywayyyy". Id rather you tell me you just don't care. Then I can stop wasting my time. It took me a long time to realize what was going on, lmao.
This isn't just Reddit with extra geeks?
Nice one
Hi I'm the fediverse chick
Memes about the Fediverse.
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