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  • hal@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Its actually simple. Tell them, its like Email. You have an email account at gmail, but can perfectly fine have email conversation with someone on outllook. Lemmy instance = the same as a web email interface of any email provider. Most people will get their head around that.

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      1 year ago

      As soon as you have to explain the fediverse to someone using analogies my experience is that most people have already given up. They just can’t be bothered to learn something new.

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      1 year ago

      Ohhhh I kept hearing the email analogy but never WHY it was like email. Thanks for the ELI5!

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      1 year ago

      I love this. Perfect analogy because it’s literally the same.

      Got to say I’m really excited that nobody can own the master instance of say this channel. If some channel goes rogue, there can be easily a competing instance that challenges the top spot. And the same applies to servers themselves. Everyone has to cooperate or you will be excluded.