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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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[–] bradd 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

as soon as you say "make an account" their eyes will glaze over. if not, as soon as they hear "instance" their eyes glaze over. if not, as soon as they hear "whichever one you like best" their eyes will glaze over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sorry, you misread what I said 😅

You, the recommender, are the one picking the instance. Whichever one you like best! Don't bother telling them anything about instances, that's a waste of time. Just say "go to lemmy.world and post" and don't bother explaining anything else.

[–] bradd 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, gotcha, that would be more successful for sure.