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How should I be describing or categorizing Lemmy to other people? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Unfederated news thread? Unfederated reddit? *i then struggle to explain reddit

Is it social media? Is it a forum?

I live around more tractors than people for context of my audience. I can explain what unfederated aspect is no problem but i sould like my grandpa describing facebook to his older siblings when i try to explain what a lemmy or reddit style forum is to my peers and family.

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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

But it’s not “unfederated”, it is federated.

Not that that necessarily matters when you are describing it. That happens to be a feature of the software architecture. Users might not care about that detail so much.

I would just describe it how you would describe Reddit. So then the question becomes how do you describe Reddit? I might call it a link aggregator. People posts links, and then users comment on those links.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Huh yeah i knew that but always used the term unfederated and this is first time im being corrected on it lol

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    What do you think federated actually means? Because calling it unfederated makes no sense

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 4 months ago

    Its built in for me to default to hating federations. Lol I understand the federated context, idk why ive just always thought it was unfederated and google's peers of coorporate whores were the federated. Noone ever corrected me until I made this thread.

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