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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Its actually simple. Tell them, its like Email. You have an email account at gmail, but can perfectly fine have email conversation with someone on outllook. Lemmy instance = the same as a web email interface of any email provider. Most people will get their head around that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As soon as you have to explain the fediverse to someone using analogies my experience is that most people have already given up. They just can’t be bothered to learn something new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ohhhh I kept hearing the email analogy but never WHY it was like email. Thanks for the ELI5!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great description. Im stealing that one