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How to convey the sheer drama of federated social networks when talking to friends? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think the only answer here is that we need Japan to create "Hikaru no Lemmy", where an ancient spirit of a dead Lemmy poster possesses a young boy called Hikaru, who proceeds to amaze the world with some top tier Lemmy posts 😛

Or more seriously, I'm a huge fan of this infographic and share it with people whenever I get asked about Lemmy: https://i.imgur.com/b2QuYAR.png

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

Good one indeed!

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

Ha ha, good one :D The graphic is also good. I wish there would be one in like a medieval fantasy setting. On the left side you have a mad king who tries to control the whole empire, on the right you have federated states, each with their own community and rules. I think these graphics are great but I wish we would make more use of storytelling: for example, someone growing up in the centralised fantasy kingdom, who then joins federated tribes living in the wild. I think that could also be done with just a few slides.

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

One would make sure that it doesn't get too political though ...