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.
Reddit, with fewer white supremacists/imperialists. 👍
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Social news aggregator “like reddit” but without centralized control.
It’s a forum. Servers are connected somehow.
Through a series of tubes.
it’s reddit for ultra nerds.
True. I just got here cuz I feel Reddit is being too mainstream these days.
when my suburban conservative suv conformity at all costs family is quoting reddit posts to me… yeah it’s way too mainstream. 10 years ago they would have seen reddit and dismissed it as a haven for leftwing nutjobs and nerds.
i haven’t used it in 5 years now.
You’d have been permanently banned by now.
i was ‘perma banned’ multiple times. IP bans even, and they kept unbanning me so they could sell me IPO stocks.
It’s a joke of a site now. most of my old communities imploded anyway, or got locked down to mod-only approved posting, which meant they became echo chambers of the mods beliefs only.
I only started catching bans within the past two years. What were you saying that kept getting you into trouble?
Either Reddit got significantly worse, or, my going paranoia: you become the target of political operatives (Zionists, in my case) who mercilessly report anything vaguely actionable until you leave. I just saw the light on Israel a short time before I began catching bans and warnings, but could just be a coincidence.
posting pictures of my cat and being reported for inciting violence. because he was outdoors in the picture and all outdoor cats are mass murderers, according to the Very Smart folks who use reddit.
That was a site-wide ban?
You said you got REPEATED bans, though. Does your cat have a Hitler mustache or something?
“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.
highly doubt a bunch of farmers would enjoy lemmy
You don’t have describe or categorize - just lead them to see and decide for themselves - anything else is just opinion
Why bother getting into any great detail. Say it is a bunch of different message boards and move on.
A forum of antisocials being antisocial😉
Solutions focused.
No one cares about “federation” or “decentralized”.
They do care about contingency in the event of enshittification, algorithms that don’t invade privacy, and viable replacements for the apps they already use.
Lemmy is a site where you follow topics that interest you instead of following people.
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
Lemmy is federated. It’s a federation of instances. Unfederated would be the opposite of what Lemmy is.
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.
“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?
