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

submitted 4 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] 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it matters. the specific ways in which email services work or are used are not what the analogy is supposed to explain.

it's supposed to explain how two people who log in to different lemmy instances is different from logging into Facebook and MySpace, or Twitter and Threads.

"how does it work? aren't they different sites?'

"you know how you can have a gmail and someone else can use an outlook email but you can still send emails to each other"

done. even 70 year olds would get it. problem solved. easy, approachable analogy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Exactly this. The second you utter the word "federation" you can see people's eyes glaze over in real time. The email explainer is good but it really needs to be a short sentence and that's it