Gregory's ServerRandom person: oh, what’s #Mastodon?
Me: *starts eagerly explaining the distributed nature of fediverse*
Random: *eyes immediately glaze over*
Me: *sighs* it’s “better Twitter” :blobfoxcry2:
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@aronow I've been opting to relate mastodon to a Twitter styled discord/teams but you can see other server posts through a channel. Seems to work with those of us too young remember when email services were not interconnected. @jforjarrod @aronow No surprise, since you’ve got attempted HTML tags and “Techie” in your bio. If I’m going to get my friend group to join, I need to explain it as “Twitter without ads, and Elon Musk can’t ban you because you called him an asshole.”  @aronow@hachyderm.io |
@aronow I usually say it's like Xitter but without central control. Might compare to personal blogs vs. Facebook, depending on the audience. Even people much older than me seem to get the idea of being connected without all being under one roof, like a walkable neighborhood.