I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
Communists instead of fascists
I’m neither.
Nor I, but I’d rather have the ocassional far left twat than the facist investation that other social media platforms are suffering. Also the extremists are mostly concentrated on a few instances.
But OP asked for a “quick” description of Lemmy.
If youtube commnents could be read and interfered from reddit how could it be? The future of Fediverse is like this.
Its open source so you can not just see the source code but also have your own DIY reddit with interoperability with many servers like this.
And lemmy is the modern replica of reddit with this Fediverse foss concept…Nerd reddit
Haha like saying something is boomer facebook
Decentralized and noncommercial reddit
First thing asked “Decentralized?”
And it’s one of those things where those who care already know, and those that don’t care won’t : “get it” by you explaining it.
“Decentralized?”
“Like email” is a quick way to explain that.
It really isn’t, I had no idea what people were on about when they said that and it sidetracked me from actually reaching a proper understanding. The analogy makes sense and seems apt, when you already understand the concept but not when you don’t.
“Oh, I’m good. I don’t need another email. I don’t even use the one I have”.
Is how that explaination would go.
Nah, probably more “like an email : doesn’t matter if you’re @gmail or @outlook, multiple servers can communicate together”
I found it pretty easy by explaining that if reddit is a website, then Lemmy is a search engine that just has a similar feel to it.
It isn’t accurate, but gets the point across to those who don’t understand tech.
“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”
I don’t even know what Lemmy is but I use it.
its nerdy reddit and if you want to know more I will have to describe the idea of federation and distributed social media.
It’s reddit but instead of r/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are leftist authoritarians
tankies, don’t use .mlWhat exactly do you want to describe? People know social media apps/sites like this one.
The important difference is not the app but how it works.
So I’d rather describe what federation means. For that I always found the e-mail comparison useful. Then I’d add that there’s different apps around that but this one’s most like reddit, which I used to use.
Many parallel reddit-like services which can interact with each others’ content if they choose to allow it.
Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it’s a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.
A collection of message boards.
Reddit in slow-motion.
Reddit for nerds and political extremists.
I don’t think a non-Fediverse person would be very familiar with Mastodon. They’d be more likely to go “What, like elephants?”.
I would keep it really simple, and just go for “Reddit alternative”. The whole Federation and decentralised business is going to be a sledgehammer if you introduce it to someone who’s not familiar with the concept.
