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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IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 25 pts · 28d
https://startrek.website/post/41513045
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 28d
Social news aggregator "like reddit" but without centralized control.
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 17 pts · 28d
It's a forum. Servers are connected somehow.
mereo@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 28d
Through a series of tubes.
If you don't get the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes?wprov=sfti1
markz@suppo.fi · 11 pts · 28d
Community-made reddit clone.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 28d
How dare you
redsand@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 28d
Spread out over regional and topic centered servers that cooperate so it all acts like one thing. The main cool detail if they seem interested enough to find out more.
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 28d
"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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 28d
"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"
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 28d
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.
11111one11111@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
Huh yeah i knew that but always used the term unfederated and this is first time im being corrected on it lol
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 28d
“Federated” or “decentralized”
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 28d
What do you think federated actually means? Because calling it unfederated makes no sense
11111one11111@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 27d
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.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 28d
Lemmy is a site where you follow topics that interest you instead of following people.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 7 pts · 28d
it's reddit for ultra nerds.
Kritix@fedia.io · 2 pts · 28d
True. I just got here cuz I feel Reddit is being too mainstream these days.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 1 pts · 28d
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.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 28d
You'd have been permanently banned by now.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 1 pts · 28d
i was 'perma banned' multiple times. IP bans even, and they kept unbanning me so they could sell me IPO stocks.
It's a joke of a site now. most of my old communities imploded anyway, or got locked down to mod-only approved posting, which meant they became echo chambers of the mods beliefs only.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 1 pts · 28d
I hated running into the "hidden" rules for communities by mods. You cant say certain words in certain communities as that would get you shadow-banned (you cant say meshcore in the meshtastic subreddit for instance).
And then reddit giving notices for up-voting certain content it does not want others to see .
They want conversions one way only. And supermods that have hundreds of subreddits under them like its a full time job....
Im glad im here.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 28d
I only started catching bans within the past two years. What were you saying that kept getting you into trouble?
Either Reddit got significantly worse, or, my going paranoia: you become the target of political operatives (Zionists, in my case) who mercilessly report anything vaguely actionable until you leave. I just saw the light on Israel a short time before I began catching bans and warnings, but could just be a coincidence.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 1 pts · 28d
posting pictures of my cat and being reported for inciting violence. because he was outdoors in the picture and all outdoor cats are mass murderers, according to the Very Smart folks who use reddit.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 28d
That was a site-wide ban?
You said you got REPEATED bans, though. Does your cat have a Hitler mustache or something?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 28d
Reddit, with fewer white supremacists/imperialists. 👍
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 28d
Depending on which instance you are referring to, but yes, overall less.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 28d
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
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 28d
Lemmy is federated. It's a federation of instances. Unfederated would be the opposite of what Lemmy is.
justaman123@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 28d
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.
coolie4@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 28d
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.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 28d
unfederated??? unfederated reddit is reddit. federated reddit would be closer to the federation.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d
Thank you I was reading the comments screaming why is no one pointing out that OP has it backwards!?
darthelmet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 27d
Antisocial media.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 28d
Why bother getting into any great detail. Say it is a bunch of different message boards and move on.
11111one11111@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 28d
A forum of antisocials being antisocial😉
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d
All the mental illness and personality disorders of Reddit, without as much corporate ownership and shilling.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
At least it's genuine.
11111one11111@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d
Holy fuck this is the best one ive gotten so far hahaha
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 27d
Social media no one uses
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
If social media is a massive night club, this is the local dive bar, and that's exactly how I like it.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 28d
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…”
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 28d
non-corporate discussion forum?
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 28d
open source reddit that is accessible through the fediverse account.
if people don't know reddit: "it's organized around communities instead of user accounts. so you don't follow user account, you follow communities instead that each have a specific topic that's being discussed or talked about. like video games, football, memes etc."
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 28d
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.
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 25d
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
arcine@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 28d
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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 26d
dyslexicdainbroner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
You don’t have describe or categorize - just lead them to see and decide for themselves - anything else is just opinion
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 1 pts · 28d
I go with « Anarchist Reddit »
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 28d
reddit before the reddit sub-purges of the 2016-2017ish. and before the homogenization, politicization of most subs.
chunes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
highly doubt a bunch of farmers would enjoy lemmy