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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think one of the main reasons why the fediverse didn’t blow up much bigger than it did over the past couple of years is because of the weird and insistent need to explain how it works from every possible angle with seemingly every possible analogy. It’s information overload and it only confuses the shit out of people who do not care in the slightest how it works.

Hmm… maybe if we tell the nerds that they need to add an “abstraction layer” to their explanations that might motivate them to simplify?