• perkele@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I just use the email metaphor and it usually gives people a rough idea how it works. It seems more complicated than it is.

    • Furball@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using the email metaphor to explain what it is and then sending them to sh.itjust.works

      • aRatherDapperFox@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’ve been explaining it as countries/international travel. Lemmy is a country, Mastodon is a country, you can travel freely between them but you need a passport. Each service has it’s own government whose rules you have to abide. Lemmy instances are like states (or provinces or what have you), where you can just… freely travel between them. Each instance has it’s own local government whose rules you have to abide. Communities are like cities/towns, with their own small local government whose rules you have to abide… etc, etc.