Memes about the Fediverse.
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For those on traditional social media, I just say "What if Facebook and Twitter and YouTube could all talk to each other? People on Facebook could follow people on Twitter and people on Twitter can follow people on Facebook." Then they usually reply "that would be neat" and then I tell them "yeah, that's what we are building over here in the fediverse."
It usually is easier to give them an analogy related to something they are familiar with.
Ironically as a fediverse user I had a visceral reaction to reading that. That sounds like absolute nightmare fuel to me...
True. But when talking to someone who lives on traditional social media, it is an explanation they would understand. Sometimes you have to meet people where they are, not where you want them to be.
I actually have separate accounts on the different fediverse products - for me it’s the decentralization of instances that’s the most appealing.
When I tell people the only social media I use is Lemmy, I always wait patiently for follow up questions immediately after, which never come, because nobody gives a shit about what obscure social media the 35 year old man uses.
I just say "I frequent a few niche forums". No follow up questions. I'm old as well.
I told one of my co-workers I used Lemmy, and he actually used Mastodan, so I'm the one who ended up asking him questions
Hey I am not an 35 year old man! I am still in my 20's!
...well, 29 actually, shit.
As a 23 year old man, i quite often get the follow up "whats lemmy" but nothing beyond that.
What is misskey? I am a fediverse user and I don't even know what that is.
Best way I can describe misskey as a user of it is that it's like mastodon but if they implemented every feature request possible. I mean it literally has a toggle to convert your text into cat speak for no other reason other than the dev felt like it. It even has its own markdown language to give your text crazy effects because who wouldn't want an emoji amplified 4 times that spins and changes color?
It uses activitypub as well so it's entirely interoperable with mastodon instances (although some functions like quote posts or the custom markdown language aren't formatted as nicely when viewed from a mastodon instance)
toggle to convert your text into cat speak
SOLD!
If you want to enable the setting, it's under
Settings > Profile > Advanced Settings > Mark this account as a cat
(wording/location may vary if you're using a misskey fork but it should be under the profile settings somewhere)
This will give your icon cat ears in public timelines and any text you write will be converted to catspeak. Works better in Japanese, which is the language it was designed for, but in English words like "now" get converted to "meow" for example.
I don't even know who Nicole is???
One day she will come to your DMs
I've been blessed two times by her this week alone.
Nicole, the fediverse chick
Goddamnit! I love this and want to share it, but don't know anyone else that will appreciate it. Is this.. irony?
It is cyclical fate
I’ve never felt like a bigger idiot than when I try to explain the fediverse to normal people.
Hey.. so you know about Email, right?
How you're with Gmail and I with.. say Proton. And we can still send Emails to each other? ...
Is my go to approach
I find it easier if the other person is a podcast listener.
"You know how podcast ads usually say 'listen to it in Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts?' It's a bit like that."
If not, I have to say something weak or complicated like "it's a bit like email, dunno how to explain this if you have never thought about how email works, though".
That's a really good analogy.
The email one works too once they realize they've never actually thought about what an email is. Like:
"If I send you an email from gmail, you can open it in outlook, right?" "Yeah"
"That's because an email is just a file that both gmail and outlook can use" "makes sense"
"Can I see your Twitter post on Reddit?" "No of course not"
"But i can see Lemmy (Reddit) posts on Mastodon (Twitter). And these apps aren't owned by huge companies. Normal people run each instance, and the software is free for anyone to use or host."
Not even big instances, but big platforms I would say. Like, if you're lucky someone might have heard about Mastodon, but that's pretty much it.
“Ah yes the Dinosaur mato thing? Failed twitter alternative right?”
(actual quote from a convo I’ve had)
To top it all off, I share this to discord groups where nobody even knows what the fediverse is.
The original comic is actually genius, and very true.
You clearly see it when the Linux users start prostletysing.
This isn't just Reddit with extra geeks?
It's reddit as run by geeks.
So old Reddit?
