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For a certain democratic you could probably explain it like Cross Play in video games
“Works just like email” is always easy way to explain. Everyone who uses email understands that they can send a message to a @gmail.com account from a @yahoo.com account or any other server.
uhh I feel this in my bones. I just send them to various different servers now, they can learn about federation some other day if they stick around.
Yesterday I was with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. The meme was me exactly.
This has such “I use Arch btw” energy! 😂
Insert an asterisk there.
“oh wait, you can’t interact with content from servers that blocked you, or are blocked. Don’t worry, this is only used to stop spam and illegal content. Except for when it isn’t”.
don’t forget when federation just doesn’t work because the servers aren’t aware of each other!
happens quite often on smaller servers
or links to anything in the threadiverse doesn’t open via your instance without an app, extension or proper linking unless it’s from the front page.
I found that its easier to just show my feed and point out that my, the posters and the commenters instances are different. Kinda hard to explain otherwise.
Yeah, my explainers now include screenshots.
Yeah, you lost her right at picking a server.
This is a fantastic take on one of my favorite classic templates.
