@embrcrndm@altima_neo I’ll just say this: I’m currently sending this from Mastodon. Your instance and my instance both use the ActivityPub protocol which is likened to email by many people.
The average tech idealist underestimates network effects and natural centralization. Any goal beyond a single entity having over half the traffic is probably too ambitious.
The average person doesn’t understand decentralizing networks.
Yeah, especially all the Reddit expats. Myself included. Took me a while to understand what federated meant and how it worked.
But also what redditors want from Lemmy vs what Lemmy is are somewhat two different things.
I’m in the same boat. I feel like I get what Lemmy is really all about now, but I also feel like I still have no idea what all of it really is.
Is fun though
Would you mind doing a quick “ELI5”?
I’m probably not the right person to explain it as I still only have a rudimentary understand of it.
Thanks anyway. I’ll read up!
@embrcrndm @altima_neo I’ll just say this: I’m currently sending this from Mastodon. Your instance and my instance both use the ActivityPub protocol which is likened to email by many people.
Whoa shit, that’s awesome!!
@embrcrndm No kidding :)
Welcome to the #fediverse!
It’s like email. With email, if you have a @gmail.com address you can communicate with @hotmail.com addresses.
Well, with lemmy/mastodon/whatever they work the same way. Users don’t have to all be on the same server to interact with each other.
The average tech idealist underestimates network effects and natural centralization. Any goal beyond a single entity having over half the traffic is probably too ambitious.