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.
Antisocial media.
Social media no one uses
unfederated??? unfederated reddit is reddit. federated reddit would be closer to the federation.
Thank you I was reading the comments screaming why is no one pointing out that OP has it backwards!?
All the mental illness and personality disorders of Reddit, without as much corporate ownership and shilling.
Holy fuck this is the best one ive gotten so far hahaha
“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?
It’s a link aggregation system that’s user generated, and moderated… plus comments. It’s a lot like Reddit just decentralized.
The main difference with Lemmy is the content. You need to understand that half the content on Lemmy is cartoons of foxes fucking stuff and circlejerking about how ADHD means you don’t have to put any effort into anything.
Think like Jack Nicholson’s character in as good as it gets… you picture someone “and then I take away all reason and accountability…”
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.
Lemmy is federated. It’s a federation of instances. Unfederated would be the opposite of what Lemmy is.
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
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.
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😉
highly doubt a bunch of farmers would enjoy lemmy
Reddit, with fewer white supremacists/imperialists. 👍
Depending on which instance you are referring to, but yes, overall less.
