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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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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd say lemmy.world is probably the ideal for redditors, I agree it's too big, but it's probably the safest option for people without a lot of knowledge. sh.itjustworks is also IMO fine if you know the person isn't offended by language.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I agree it’s too big

That's the main issue. Its size creates 5-days delay with some instances

The issues have been here for months, are not going to be fixed any time soon as the latest Lemmy version still has issues like the pictures one: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5196

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