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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.
As a 23 year old man, i quite often get the follow up "whats lemmy" but nothing beyond that.
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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
I just say "I frequent a few niche forums". No follow up questions. I'm old as well.
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I’ve never felt like a bigger idiot than when I try to explain the fediverse to normal people.
I don't think this is as much as specialized knowledge issue as it is that normal people are frightingly technologically illiterate considering how much is computers. I mean this is not a hard concept to grasp at laymans architectural level
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I always start with, ok, so you know the internet is basically a series of tubes right? Once we are on the same page about that, I start talking about ipv4 and ipv6 including a mention of dual stack supporting instances.
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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".
I usually start with email, but I wonder if podcasts would be smarter. when I read what you said, my first thought was"but podcasts require you to upload to every instance that you want to be seen on" and then I realized that for the people that are just trying to get content this doesn't matter. That's actually genius.
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."
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Duh, she is the fediverse chick after all
I know she is, but its kind of creepy.
It's no longer as humorous as she was at first withe them whole shit j. The world and the content just makes me worry it's something else that we ~~Rob ok~~ can't control.
Edit : ok that happened a second time this morning why the fuck am I dosing off suddenly and not realizing I didn't check before I hit save?
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It's so annoying to me because she kinda looks like an ex with the same name
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[off topic?] When William Gibson was researching 'Neuromancer' he spent a lot of time hanging out with hackers. They'd tell stories and he'd catch about a quarter of what they were talking about.
When it came to write the book he decided that he'd make the book like that, the reader would have to push though a lot of things that didn't make sense until they acquired more information.