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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)
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The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

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[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I know how email works but it sure didn't help me understand the fediverse.

It's just one thing in email servers functioning that is similar in the fediverse, everything else is not similar. It is just confusing to compare the two to anyone not yet knowing how the fediverse works IMO.

"It's like the postal service!"

"It's like the internet!"

Just say it's like reddit (or a social media) but free and open and anyone can have/make one, or use an existing one. For free.

/Rant off

[โ€“] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

Same. I don't know why people keep trying to use the email example, personally I found it too much of an abstract concept that doesn't necessarily work for Lemmy.

If I knew someone used Reddit then I'd just say it's like Reddit but instead of a single authority in charge of Reddit, anyone can take the Reddit software and host it themselves, and if you create an account on one site you can still subscribe to subreddits on other sites and vote and comment on posts.