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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)

submitted 5 days ago by CyberTailor to c/fediverse

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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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[–] Zarxrax 106 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you want to get non-techy users, then there is absolutely no need to even use the word fediverse or to try to explain what any of this means. If you want to help a friend get onboard, just send them a link to sign up on the same server that you use, or a nice general purpose server. That's it. They sign up, they use it, and THEN they can start to learn about fediverse shit if they care to.

[–] Usernameblankface 10 points 5 days ago

Yes. You can use it without understanding how it works behind the scenes. At some point, they'll run into a situation where it is helpful to learn some part of how the fediverse works and then they can ask about it, generating more content and interaction along the way