If you want to get non-techy users, then there is absolutely no need to even use the word fediverse or to try to explain what any of this means. If you want to help a friend get onboard, just send them a link to sign up on the same server that you use, or a nice general purpose server. That's it. They sign up, they use it, and THEN they can start to learn about fediverse shit if they care to.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"you know how you can't talk to someone on Twitter.com from facebook.com? But you can email from your @gmail.com to someone with an @yahoo.com address?

That's the difference, federated social media is like email in this way."

I'm mostly sure even my elderly parents understood it when I said it...

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And you know how, when you subscribe to a mailing list, you will only receive new mail sent to the list if your server happens to “federate” with the sender’s server?

Oh wait, that’s not how e-mail works.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Email providers absolutely block other email providers who abuse their system.