If you had a hundred small Reddits talking to each other like one big Reddit, oh and with fewer fascists and no ads.

reddit without the reddit users

Decentralized and noncommercial reddit

Reddit.

Without the cunt on top who put it down.

And there won't ever be one, because there's no chair for him to sit in.

I've learned it's a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It's right up there with getting them to care about privacy

I'd just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they'd like

Like reddit but mostly politics and no videos.

They don't need to know what the fediverse is. I'd tell them it's a smaller Reddit without the many assholes and narcissistic mods.

It's essentially reddit but, decentralised like email, aka. you don't have one entity controlling all email.

It's user focused and free from corporate overlords, it's a lot friendlier, kinda feels like the old Internet

It's reddit but instead of r/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are leftist authoritarians tankies, don't use .ml

"Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat."

Nerd reddit

Its like reddit without the content and with silly keyboard warriors. But at least not big tech. :)

Ive been here two years and have made 5500 comments so I guess im quite an active user of this place. Its not too bad. But absolutely an huge echo chamber.

Communists instead of fascists

I call it "socialist Reddit" or "anti-social media"

If reddit had many servers not just one. Thats how I do it, since people dont understand mastadon either. And using the word instance is ludicrous. It confused me early on myself

Reddit in slow-motion.

Interconnected group of reddits. Any such reddit is called a 'instance'.

Instead of having one instance, you have multiple independent instances that can see each other's content and post on each.
That makes them federated. Some instances filter what their users can see, others don't. They can be self-hosted.

Unlike in the OG reddit, votes are transparent, and you can see if users got banned somewhere with the reasons why.

Social media for antisocial people

Reddit for nerds and political extremists.

Reddit12 years sgo

News and discussion, but you start from a chosen community and work towards global connection. Also, no ads, no making you the product, and volunteer-based development and moderation.

A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.

Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it's a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.

Many parallel reddit-like services which can interact with each others' content if they choose to allow it.

If youtube commnents could be read and interfered from reddit how could it be? The future of Fediverse is like this.
Its open source so you can not just see the source code but also have your own DIY reddit with interoperability with many servers like this.
And lemmy is the modern replica of reddit with this Fediverse foss concept..

A collection of message boards.

It's a popular but inferior alternative to Mbin.

Reddit but better.

I don't even know what Lemmy is but I use it.

Reddit for people who like making their life more difficult

I've found comparing it to email works well. It's about the only (mostly) decentralised service that most people have used.

"It's like Reddit, but is decentralised, like email is.", "This makes it far harder to manipulate to hide information."

I don't think a non-Fediverse person would be very familiar with Mastodon. They'd be more likely to go "What, like elephants?".

I would keep it really simple, and just go for "Reddit alternative". The whole Federation and decentralised business is going to be a sledgehammer if you introduce it to someone who's not familiar with the concept.

!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

its nerdy reddit and if you want to know more I will have to describe the idea of federation and distributed social media.

Social media, but it's setup lile e-mail, so there's no one single company that owns everything or enforces universal rules. Anyone can do their own hosting and still communicate with everyone else.

A non-Fediverse person wouldn’t know Mastodon, would they?

Usually I say it’s like a thousand different tiny Reddits that all subscribe to each other. No central owner, no central operator. If any one of them gets unruly, the others can just shun them.

THEN I sometimes say “do you remember Mastodon?” And half the time they are like “oh yeah! That Twitter alternative!” And I say yes like that but for Reddit.