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Sometimes I struggle to convey what continues to fascinate me about dezentraly organized social media - its like explaining to someone who never played Go why its awesome who never played it.

And what I would usually recommend is (in the case of Go): watch hikaru no go (popular Go anime). I could teach them the rules, but to capture the spirit of it, I would also need to spend hours playing it with them. So instead, I give them an awesome series, which conveys the drama, fights, frustrations through story.

Would that also work for the fediverse? Sometimes I tend to get lost in technical details and how it tries to solve problems about moderation without conveing any of the daily drama and excitement I have - so what would be a good series/film/anime/book/comic that could convey this? Or do we need to create it?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I usually explain it simply:

"Do you use email?" "Yeh" "It works similar doesn't matter which provider you choose Proton, G-mail, Yahoo and your mail can go to all of the others."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tell people it's like signing up for a newsletter with your email, except the newsletter is also your social media feed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right and that explains it well. But it doesn't exactly get people excited or make them understand what it FEELS like to be part of a federated social network.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's weird that you think people should be excited. This is just a forum for discussion, there's really nothing exciting about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If there's too much excitement and drama, something has gone wrong.

I tended to just send people links to communities they might like them follow up with an explanation of what Lemmy is, if asked. Bit boring I know.