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Social news aggregator "like reddit" but without centralized control.
It's a forum. Servers are connected somehow.
Community-made reddit clone.
"Lemmy is a decentralized internet forum. People host their own "instance" or join someone else's instead of it all being hosted by one person/business".
Assuming you're talking to someone who doesn't even use reddit I would spare them any details until they ask.
"You know reddit? Its basically reddit, but run by nerds who say its better and then start talking like Doctor Who when they try to explain it. But its basically reddit without so many bots"
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.
Reddit, with fewer white supremacists/imperialists. 👍
Lemmy is a site where you follow topics that interest you instead of following people.
It's open source social media. There's no algorithm. It's a bit like the internet before it became owned by 5 corporations.
I think for tractor folk explaining how it's not like Facebook is probably a good start. If they know what you mean by open source you can tell them more and go into more detail about what federated means, or what instances mean.
Typically you cant really introduce normies to more than one piece of new information at a time. The new piece of information can have three parts, and should. But two of those parts should be in relation to two things they are familiar with.
I just say its open source community run social media 🤷🏻♂️
Most people don't care, so I just move on to talking about whatever I was referencing that required the context of what the platform is
Lemmy is federated. It's a federation of instances. Unfederated would be the opposite of what Lemmy is.
Antisocial media.
unfederated??? unfederated reddit is reddit. federated reddit would be closer to the federation.
Solutions focused.
No one cares about "federation" or "decentralized".
They do care about contingency in the event of enshittification, algorithms that don't invade privacy, and viable replacements for the apps they already use.
it's reddit for ultra nerds.
Why bother getting into any great detail. Say it is a bunch of different message boards and move on.
Social media no one uses
It’s a link aggregation system that’s user generated, and moderated… plus comments. It’s a lot like Reddit just decentralized.
The main difference with Lemmy is the content. You need to understand that half the content on Lemmy is cartoons of foxes fucking stuff and circlejerking about how ADHD means you don’t have to put any effort into anything.
Think like Jack Nicholson’s character in as good as it gets… you picture someone “and then I take away all reason and accountability…”
non-corporate discussion forum?
All the mental illness and personality disorders of Reddit, without as much corporate ownership and shilling.
I describe it as a reddit like forum, made from many individual servers strung together. But I suppose that explanation glosses over the whole federation part and could be confusing to less technicly inclined peeps
I described it to a friend as Reddit (which itself is a forum that people comment on posts) that works like email - you can pick your own server and interact with others.
It's like reddit, but it works like email : different websites work together, you can sign up to any of them, and talk to and see posts by people on all the other Lemmy websites. Each website is called an instance.
I go with « Anarchist Reddit »
You don’t have describe or categorize - just lead them to see and decide for themselves - anything else is just opinion
highly doubt a bunch of farmers would enjoy lemmy
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