Unfederated news thread? Unfederated reddit? *i then struggle to explain reddit
Is it social media? Is it a forum?
I live around more tractors than people for context of my audience. I can explain what unfederated aspect is no problem but i sould like my grandpa describing facebook to his older siblings when i try to explain what a lemmy or reddit style forum is to my peers and family.
“You know reddit? Its basically reddit, but run by nerds who say its better and then start talking like Doctor Who when they try to explain it. But its basically reddit without so many bots”
non-corporate discussion forum?
It’s a link aggregation system that’s user generated, and moderated… plus comments. It’s a lot like Reddit just decentralized.
The main difference with Lemmy is the content. You need to understand that half the content on Lemmy is cartoons of foxes fucking stuff and circlejerking about how ADHD means you don’t have to put any effort into anything.
Think like Jack Nicholson’s character in as good as it gets… you picture someone “and then I take away all reason and accountability…”
It’s open source social media. There’s no algorithm. It’s a bit like the internet before it became owned by 5 corporations.
I think for tractor folk explaining how it’s not like Facebook is probably a good start. If they know what you mean by open source you can tell them more and go into more detail about what federated means, or what instances mean.
Typically you cant really introduce normies to more than one piece of new information at a time. The new piece of information can have three parts, and should. But two of those parts should be in relation to two things they are familiar with.
I described it to a friend as Reddit (which itself is a forum that people comment on posts) that works like email - you can pick your own server and interact with others.
Lemmy is federated. It’s a federation of instances. Unfederated would be the opposite of what Lemmy is.
Lemmy is a site where you follow topics that interest you instead of following people.
Social news aggregator “like reddit” but without centralized control.
It’s a forum. Servers are connected somehow.
Through a series of tubes.
I just say its open source community run social media 🤷🏻♂️
Most people don’t care, so I just move on to talking about whatever I was referencing that required the context of what the platform is
open source reddit that is accessible through the fediverse account.
if people don’t know reddit: “it’s organized around communities instead of user accounts. so you don’t follow user account, you follow communities instead that each have a specific topic that’s being discussed or talked about. like video games, football, memes etc.”
“Lemmy is a decentralized internet forum. People host their own “instance” or join someone else’s instead of it all being hosted by one person/business”.
Assuming you’re talking to someone who doesn’t even use reddit I would spare them any details until they ask.
Community-made reddit clone.
Spread out over regional and topic centered servers that cooperate so it all acts like one thing. The main cool detail if they seem interested enough to find out more.
How dare you
But it’s not “unfederated”, it is federated.
Not that that necessarily matters when you are describing it. That happens to be a feature of the software architecture. Users might not care about that detail so much.
I would just describe it how you would describe Reddit. So then the question becomes how do you describe Reddit? I might call it a link aggregator. People posts links, and then users comment on those links.
Huh yeah i knew that but always used the term unfederated and this is first time im being corrected on it lol
What do you think federated actually means? Because calling it unfederated makes no sense
“Federated” or “decentralized”
