Submitted 2 weeks ago by Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
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.
!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Social media, but it’s setup lile e-mail, so there’s no one single company that owns everything or enforces universal rules. Anyone can do their own hosting and still communicate with everyone else.
A non-Fediverse person wouldn’t know Mastodon, would they?
Usually I say it’s like a thousand different tiny Reddits that all subscribe to each other. No central owner, no central operator. If any one of them gets unruly, the others can just shun them.
THEN I sometimes say “do you remember Mastodon?” And half the time they are like “oh yeah! That Twitter alternative!” And I say yes like that but for Reddit.
I don’t think a non-Fediverse person would be very familiar with Mastodon. They’d be more likely to go “What, like elephants?”.
I would keep it really simple, and just go for “Reddit alternative”. The whole Federation and decentralised business is going to be a sledgehammer if you introduce it to someone who’s not familiar with the concept.
I’ve found comparing it to email works well. It’s about the only (mostly) decentralised service that most people have used.
“It’s like Reddit, but is decentralised, like email is.”, “This makes it far harder to manipulate to hide information.”
its nerdy reddit and if you want to know more I will have to describe the idea of federation and distributed social media.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Reddit but better.