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!
“people made their own reddit cuz reddit did a ton of bad stuff you remember?” “it’s kinda like the united states but there’s no federal government and anyone can host a new state. but anyone can talk to each other. confused yet? good!”
I’ve used email addresses as an example. You can have an @gmail address, and an @yahoo address. They can both send and receive emails from each other, despite running on different email servers, because the communication protocol between them is standardized.