I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
Reddit for people who like making their life more difficult
Social media, but it’s setup lile e-mail, so there’s no one single company that owns everything or enforces universal rules. Anyone can do their own hosting and still communicate with everyone else.
A non-Fediverse person wouldn’t know Mastodon, would they?
Usually I say it’s like a thousand different tiny Reddits that all subscribe to each other. No central owner, no central operator. If any one of them gets unruly, the others can just shun them.
THEN I sometimes say “do you remember Mastodon?” And half the time they are like “oh yeah! That Twitter alternative!” And I say yes like that but for Reddit.
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.
I’ve found comparing it to email works well. It’s about the only (mostly) decentralised service that most people have used.
“It’s like Reddit, but is decentralised, like email is.”, “This makes it far harder to manipulate to hide information.”
Reddit in slow-motion.
Reddit for nerds and political extremists.
Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it’s a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.
A collection of message boards.
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 .mlReddit.
Without the cunt on top who put it down.
And there won’t ever be one, because there’s no chair for him to sit in.
“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.”
If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.
What would win in a fight, a hundred Lemmy-sized Reddits or one Reddit-sized Lemmy?
I’d love to know if my enormous blocklist of instances and communities is unusual or if most people end up curating their global feeds massively to keep them interesting. Anime, porn, US-specific politics, authoritarian-friendly politics, furries, wojak-style barrel-scraping memes - I don’t want to downvote most of these just because they’re not my bag, but I suspect I end up with a tiny fraction of the total Lemmy+Piefed content.
I tend to block at the user and community level, my only instance block is feddit.de and that’s only because I don’t speak German and those folks are such prolific posters it felt like I was touring central Europe every time I’d go to the All feed.
Blocking what you’re not interested in is the second best part of Lemmy, IMO.
I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy
I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like
“less toxic” can be interpreted in different ways. For example, I don’t always find people on Lemmy to be more open-minded across tribal boundaries. But you can perhaps find your tribe and experience less toxicity that way?
reddit without the reddit users
