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This is how my poor grandmother must feel all the time. I'm slowly trying to understand it all. I've got most of lemmy figured out so far I think. But there's a lot more to this.
Just abstract it in your mind - Lemmy is software. Microsoft Word is software. Mastodon is software. Photoshop is software.
You can install copies of all of these pieces of software on different machines. Now just imagine if all the various copies (instances) of MS Word installed on peoples PC's around the world were able to talk to each other. And so were all the copies of Photoshop. And then further imagine that all the copies of Word were also able to talk to all the copies of Photoshop.
That's all the fediverse is. Multiple copies of the same software able to talk to each other and also able to talk to multiple copies of different software.
Have a look here, put a tick in the 'ActivityPub' protocol tickbox and you'll see the software that can (theoretically) talk to each other.