@liaizon
@EposVox video on how to use mastodon was the first thing to explain it to me well enough that I decided to make the jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrNE2fSCeFo

The old "it's like email" trick works. Though to me it's been easier to understand the differences with the fediverse and centralized social media via issues people are having. Who to federate and defederate with. Why Beehaw defederated from kbin and Lemmy. How instances moderate and how blocking works

@liaizon I recently gave a presentation about the fediverse at the PublicSpaces conference. My slides are here: https://erikkemp.eu/presentations/publicspaces/fediverseverhalen.html

Maybe it can be of some help :-)

It took about 15/20 minutes for the full talk I prepared, I think.

The shorter version (10 minutes) as part of another session on Wednesday is also recorded, but it is in Dutch: https://video.publicspaces.net/w/hCjzYXyLBsTPt8YEjrEiaB?start=34m24s

1. community run
2. enables a diverse set of voices and methods
3. open source, people can reuse the existing infrastructure
4. no central control of network or protocol
5. a diverse set of funding
6. no ads
7. diversity and potentially unlimited interfaces
...hmmm

@liaizon I'd say don't call them instances, call them servers, even though it's not technically correct, as an instance could be on more than one server. People have a way easier time conceptualizing it this way