How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?

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• WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Don’t talk about the fediverse with undesirables. /S

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• AstroLightz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.

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• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy

  I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Its like reddit without the content and with silly keyboard warriors. But at least not big tech. :)

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They don’t need to know what the fediverse is. I’d tell them it’s a smaller Reddit without the many assholes and narcissistic mods.

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists.

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What would win in a fight, a hundred Lemmy-sized Reddits or one Reddit-sized Lemmy?

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Like reddit but mostly politics and no videos.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The worst part about fediverse is there is not enough users for discussions about a specific tv show or anime 😕

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• kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  reddit without the reddit users

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• squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Decentralized and noncommercial reddit

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    First thing asked “Decentralized?”

    And it’s one of those things where those who care already know, and those that don’t care won’t : “get it” by you explaining it.

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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Decentralized?”

      “Like email” is a quick way to explain that.

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I found it pretty easy by explaining that if reddit is a website, then Lemmy is a search engine that just has the same feel as reddit.

      It isn’t accurate, but gets the point across to those who don’t understand tech.

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• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s essentially reddit but, decentralised like email, aka. you don’t have one entity controlling all email.

  It’s user focused and free from corporate overlords, it’s a lot friendlier, kinda feels like the old Internet

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• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nerd reddit

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  • mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Haha like saying something is boomer facebook

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I call it “socialist Reddit” or “anti-social media”

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Social media for antisocial people

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• AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's a popular but inferior alternative to Mbin.

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Communists instead of fascists

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m neither.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nor I, but I’d rather have the ocassional far left twat than the facist investation that other social media platforms are suffering. Also the extremists are mostly concentrated on a few instances.

      But OP asked for a “quick” description of Lemmy.

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Instead of having reddit, you have multiple reddits that can see each other’s content and post on each.

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• RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If youtube commnents could be read and interfered from reddit how could it be? The future of Fediverse is like this. And lemmy is the modern replica of reddit with this Fediverse concept…

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What exactly do you want to describe? People know social media apps/sites like this one.

  I’d rather describe what federation means. For that I always found the e-mail comparison useful. Then I’d add that there’s different apps around that but this one’s most like reddit, which I used to use.

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• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If reddit had many servers not just one. Thats how I do it, since people dont understand mastadon either. And using the word instance is ludicrous. It confused me early on myself

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reddit but better.

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