How would you explain Lemmy/Kbin to a Reddit person or to a social media person?

Trying to "recruit" more folks in Kbin but I think I lack enough information to describe Kbin effectively.

"It's like Reddit but it's in the fediverse world. It's a new thing, gaining speed fast and it has less chances to get corrupted because of the fediverse thingie compared to Reddit (lol)!"

AgentGrimstone,

To a Redditor: Basically Reddit

To a social media user: Like other platforms except there’s no following and no one looks at who’s posting the content

Tyr_Raidho_Othala,
@Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com avatar

Still a bit sad I can’t follow peeps on here. Have to do this on mastodon

yessikg,
@yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You can subscribe to a lemmy user’s rss feed (I know it’s not the same, but close)

Tyr_Raidho_Othala,
@Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com avatar

Ok, thanks for the headsup. I will do this then.

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

At least here in kbin I can push a button that sets a user to be followed.

ElPussyKangaroo,

I just told my friends that the federation is like the states in a country. They exist independently, abide by similar, but specific rules and allow you to travel between each other without friction.

sour, (edited )
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is like european union traveling feature

ElPussyKangaroo,

Bruh that’s even better 😁

sour,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

does using an analogy about an unrelated topic work

Damaskox,
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What do you mean?

sour, (edited )
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Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

My guess?

Maybe.
Should look into the analog first before being certain though.

LegionEris,

It’s a federated reddit alternative. The most I’ve ever had to elaborate is to clarify that “federated” basically means “decentralized.” I’ve never tried to explain it to someone who can’t figure it out from that.

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

The federated part is what confused me the most when I was looking into making the switch.

The ideology behind it is simple, but the term “federated” made it sound like some government thing.

sour,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

federations are decentralized

Marin_Rider,

more toxic than reddit these days and that’s saying something.

frankly I’m tired of even mundane, apolitical comments resulting in angry rage filled replies. not as nice a place it used to be

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

Peculiar.
I don't see this behavior.

Are you referring to a news or a politic community?

Marin_Rider,

almost any community really if it’s on world. I prefer stick to my home instance

Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

Peculiar.

I am subscribed to some .world's but I don't recall such behavior.

didnt_readit,

I just start with “It’s basically just a community owned Reddit” and leave it at that.

I think that gets the important point across. Getting into details about federation and picking servers just makes it sound complicated, when it really isn’t.

Then if someone’s interested I just recommend them a larger server and let them go from there.

I think people way over complicate things from the start and turn people off before they even try it.

Valmond,

Yeah keep it simple is IMO a good thing.

Like not saying it’s like email servers or something, I got that and I know Reddit and how email servers works and it just muddied the waters for me.

What do you think about this? It’s like Reddit but everyone can make theirs if they want to.

TheGiantKorean,
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In layman’s terms, comparing it to email seems the easiest way to explain.

“It’s like a distributed Reddit with a bunch of instances that are run by different people, and they all talk to one another. Some people have an email address with gmail.com, some have yahoo.com, some have protonmail.com, etc, but they can all email one another. Lemmy instances share each others’ posts in a similar way.”

Prok,
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This is also how I explain it… It’s crazy how all these centralized services have made something as old and simple as email seem foreign to people. I’ll explain it this way, and still get something like, “but this is a website”. To which I say “so is gmail.com”

shrugal, (edited )

It’s like multiple reddit sites, but they all work the same and the content and users are synced between them. So you can pick any one of them, follow topics and contact users from all of them, and if one site goes haywire we just ignore or block it and move on.

lvxferre,
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The way that I explain it is quite similar to yours. It works, but you need to emphasise

  • that unlike in Reddit, there’s no central group of admins controlling the whole thing; and
  • that each instance has its own communities, and those are equivalent to subreddits.

otherwise users start associating instances with subreddits.

scytale,

That’s how I explain it as well. It’s better than the email analogy I see all the time. Obviously using reddit as an example only works if the person you’re talking to knows what reddit is. Otherwise, I just change it to something they know (i.e. facebook, discord, etc.)

Sterile_Technique,
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“it’s like 50 intertwined tiny reddits from before reddit enshitified”

joyjoy,

And unlike previous attempts at Reddit clones, it’s not entirely made of far right extremists. It’s full of far left extremists.

Sterile_Technique,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

Finally!

0x4E4F,

I just tell them there are pirate subs (comms), that get’s their attention rather quickly.

IbnLemmy,

Piracy and porn… The secret to every social networks success…

jedi,

Lol! The best way

ernest,
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Damaskox,
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

Cool

otp,

It’s like Reddit was before they started trying to monetize it and screw over the better apps. It’s probably impossible for it to get screwed up like Reddit did. Fewer users, though, for better or for worse.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

in under 10 words

Reddit like email social media

did it in under 6 word’s

livakivi

Eldritch,

Activity pub and the feddiverse are literally the email of social media. Everyone uses email and has a basic grip on it. You at gmail.com can mail someone at hotmail.com and vice versa. So the host you choose doesn’t really matter much.

Mastodon and other similar clients give you a classic twitter like experience. With linear feeds and no algorithms to manipulate what you see. What you want to see is what you will see.

Lemmy and other similar clients give you a reddit like interface. Again with no complex manipulative algorithms. And the ability for much better moderated and curated experience than reddit.

Peertube gives you a YouTube like interface and focuses on video content.

Pixelfed is a Google photos or similar interface focusing on images.

They’re all activity pub. And can even interoperate. You can post to Lemmy from mastodon etc. Though that’s a bit more advanced currently.

FireTower,
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Don’t even mention the fediverse, unless they pry. It’s another thing to explain.

If they get Reddit just say it’s like a bunch of mini Reddits connected to each other.

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