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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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Fediverse memes
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Memes about the Fediverse.
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- We are not YPTB. If you have a problem with the way an instance or community is run, then take it up over at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
- Addendum: Yes we know that you think ml/hexbear/grad are tankies and or .world are a bunch of liberals but it gets old quickly. Try and come up with new material.
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"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.
I recently came across a scenario where the person I was talking 'felt uncomfortable' taking down my email, because it didn't end in .com. I would be careful when making assumptions about the general population.
I've signed up to websites that had entry validation on the email field that flagged not having .com at the end as invalid. Literally someone that should know about technology decided it would be a good idea to make it that way.
Unfortunately that's not the case. there are many who don't understand what's that after the weird "a"
I blame Twitter for butchering the very well defined URI specification.
The most success I've had is just explaining that it's a social media platform that exists across a variety of websites that all synchronize communities and posts and comments and votes, and you can interact with any of them from any other one
The problem with the email analogy is that, for most people, email exists as the Gmail app on their phone. It does not occur to them how I can send an email from my Hotmail account to their Gmail account. The moment you say the word protocol, 80% of people's eyes glaze over
That’s when I break out the sock puppets and high-pitched voices.
Ah yeah just like email. All I had to do to comment here from a different instance was:
- "Maybe if I click login it will somehow do federated login?" Nope.
- Ok what if I copy the
/post/<id>from the URL and paste it in my instance. Nope 404. - Hmm...
- Aha! I randomly noticed this text:
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !fedimemes@feddit.uk
- I did that, but it eventually (takes like 10 seconds) came up with a load of random posts and comments from here.
- Maybe... if I click on
Fediverse memes@feddit.uk - 792 subscribers?
Success!
Just like typing in someone@yahoo.com. 🙄
This is a fantastic take on one of my favorite classic templates.
Time to use it on Linux.