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Sharkey, FireFish, IceShrimp... dang that's all I can think of.
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...
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I actually have separate accounts on the different fediverse products - for me it’s the decentralization of instances that’s the most appealing.
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.
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)
toggle to convert your text into cat speak
SOLD!
If you want to enable the setting, it's under
Settings > Profile > Advanced Settings > Mark this account as a cat
(wording/location may vary if you're using a misskey fork but it should be under the profile settings somewhere)
This will give your icon cat ears in public timelines and any text you write will be converted to catspeak. Works better in Japanese, which is the language it was designed for, but in English words like "now" get converted to "meow" for example.
I don't even know who Nicole is???
Nicole, the fediverse chick
I’ve never felt like a bigger idiot than when I try to explain the fediverse to normal people.
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 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?
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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.
At some point do you overlay it on the OSI model?
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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
A yeah, Nicole hit me yesterday again. 😂😂😂
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.
I've only ever seen her in threads like this.
Whats the story on this? I had it in my inbox too a few days ago.
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
I'm sorry to hear that. That's a feeling alright 😞
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[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.
This isn't just Reddit with extra geeks?
It's reddit as run by geeks.
So old Reddit?
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.
Hi I'm the fediverse chick
Nice one
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