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Works like the EU
You can travel to any country (talk to any instance) within the Union (Fediverse) unless someone leaves (defederates) like… whatever the fuck UK did (Beehaw with the whole lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works defederation drama)
(no offence to Beehaw btw 😉)
“Works just like email” is always easy way to explain. Everyone who uses email understands that they can send a message to a @gmail.com account from a @yahoo.com account or any other server.
People don’t actually know that nowadays.
The most success I’ve had is just explaining that it’s a social media platform that exists across a variety of websites that all synchronize communities and posts and comments and votes, and you can interact with any of them from any other one
The problem with the email analogy is that, for most people, email exists as the Gmail app on their phone. It does not occur to them how I can send an email from my Hotmail account to their Gmail account. The moment you say the word protocol, 80% of people’s eyes glaze over
Unfortunately that’s not the case. there are many who don’t understand what’s that after the weird “a”
I recently came across a scenario where the person I was talking ‘felt uncomfortable’ taking down my email, because it didn’t end in .com. I would be careful when making assumptions about the general population.
I’ve signed up to websites that had entry validation on the email field that flagged not having .com at the end as invalid. Literally someone that should know about technology decided it would be a good idea to make it that way.
For a certain democratic you could probably explain it like Cross Play in video games
I think you mean “demographic”
This has such “I use Arch btw” energy! 😂
Yesterday I was with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. The meme was me exactly.
uhh I feel this in my bones. I just send them to various different servers now, they can learn about federation some other day if they stick around.
Insert an asterisk there.
“oh wait, you can’t interact with content from servers that blocked you, or are blocked. Don’t worry, this is only used to stop spam and illegal content. Except for when it isn’t”.
don’t forget when federation just doesn’t work because the servers aren’t aware of each other!
happens quite often on smaller servers
or links to anything in the threadiverse doesn’t open via your instance without an app, extension or proper linking unless it’s from the front page.
I found that its easier to just show my feed and point out that my, the posters and the commenters instances are different. Kinda hard to explain otherwise.
Yeah, my explainers now include screenshots.
Yeah, you lost her right at picking a server.
