Guys, when you talk about the Fediverse to friends, family, or colleagues, how do you explain it?
Do you call it a “decentralized social network,” an “alternative to big tech,” or “a collection of open-source networks”? And how do you convince someone to create an account on Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc., without them getting scared by technical terms like instance, federated, or peer-to-peer?
I’m asking because my so-called friends don’t believe me and even call me crazy when I talk about this “nonsense.”
The future is open source, decentralized, and federated!
I don’t introduce people to the fediverse
The fediverse introduces people to you
Correct answer, my fight for privacy is weird enough for the average. Introducing the fediverse would make it worse.
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I normally just say, “I read [x] on Lemmy.”
If they ask and are genuinely curious what that is, I tell them it’s like a reddit offshoot, but the users control the network and servers with a high level of transparency in administration/moderation and run off software that can have tens of thousands of crowdsourced eyes helping to find and fix any bug or security issue.
I normally just say, “I read [x] on Lemmy.”
If they ask and are genuinely curious what that is, I tell them it’s like a reddit offshoot, but the users control the network and servers with a high level of transparency in administration/moderation and run off software that can have tens of thousands of crowdsourced eyes helping to find and fix any bug or security issue.
interesting!
Yup, I just namedrop Lemmy and don’t explain unless people ask. Usually then the explanation is simple and about how I’ve chosen not to use Reddit for ethical reasons.
“The memes and news site I use.”
That’s it. No infodumping, no explaining the technicalities, just tell them “just pick one, it’s basically like a username” and worry about it only if they want to learn about the underside of it.
We don’t “explain” email to people - they just pick a site, sign up, and move on.
Working in tech I learned to only explain the workings of something if they ask since most users are perfectly fine on a surface level and can intuit more than we credit them for once they know the basic gist.
I don’t. It’s bad enough that people spend too much time on social media. Why the fuck would i introduce another one?
I’m practically only here because rif died. Its not because it’s enjoyable. I open the app to maybe see one good post among the thousands and thousands of “same”-posts.
I don’t. It’s bad enough that people spend too much time on social media. Why the fuck would i introduce another one?
I’m practically only here because rif died. Its not because it’s enjoyable. I open the app to maybe see one good post among the thousands and thousands of “same”-posts.
You made me think.
“the place I found after reddit because reddit is fucking garbage”
I just describe it as an online forum I like to argue in. 🤷
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It’s better to be coherent than not, Miss Princess. 😁
I don’t introduce them to Fediverse and don’t talk about it None of the people I know in real life are tech-savvy except one guy.
I gives concrete advantages like the choice of client to browse those platform, features not getting removed for profits etc. I think the decentralization as a selling point is a failed strategy
“Lemmy is like Reddit the same way Linux is like windows. Its not really as good, but turbonerds will give you a thousand reasons why its better and you wont really understand.”
“Its not filled with wankers and bots yet though so its got that going for it.”
“Its not filled with wankers and bots yet though so its got that going for it.”
hahaha I use Arch, btw
A free and open source social media platform supported only by the users and not by spying on its users.
Yeah but then there’s still no buy in from friends and family. They are most likely going to retort “Well none of my friends use it”. We could have open source social media in 2020s but people don’t want to use something they don’t know. Meta is comfortable for them and they are OK with being tracked and monitored by Meta intelligence, its stupid that they rather live like that but only they can change their minds
The reality is it will take some disruptive force to alter the status quo. Maybe the government splitting up tech giants, maybe some public backlash to current events or maybe we will be invaded by aliens. Whatever it is, I will be waiting here on the Fediverse to welcome any and all who wish to join. Now having glimpsed a world free of invasive spying and constant manipulation to buy more stuff, I will never go back.
I start sending fediverse links containing memes etc. and eventually they sign up on one of the sites.
Honestly? I don’t. The people I know who would join it already know about it and the people who don’t know about it would never join it.
I just tell people I saw it on reddit because my friends and family won’t use or understand reddit never mind lemmy.
Unsuccessfully so far, that’s for sure
Simple.
Just like you introduce Linux!
