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.
Social news aggregator “like reddit” but without centralized control.
It’s a forum. Servers are connected somehow.
Through a series of tubes.
If you don’t get the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes?wprov=sfti1
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.
Huh yeah i knew that but always used the term unfederated and this is first time im being corrected on it lol
“Federated” or “decentralized”
“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.
Reddit, with fewer white supremacists/imperialists. 👍
Depending on which instance you are referring to, but yes, overall less.
it’s reddit for ultra nerds.
True. I just got here cuz I feel Reddit is being too mainstream these days.
when my suburban conservative suv conformity at all costs family is quoting reddit posts to me… yeah it’s way too mainstream. 10 years ago they would have seen reddit and dismissed it as a haven for leftwing nutjobs and nerds.
i haven’t used it in 5 years now.
You don’t have describe or categorize - just lead them to see and decide for themselves - anything else is just opinion
Community-made reddit clone.
I go with « Anarchist Reddit »
