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[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I just told my fairly tech-unsavvy partner the email analogy:

You sign up on Google, I sign up on yahoo, my bro-in-law runs his own from a server in his house. We can all email each other and the email looks mostly the same no matter who reads it, but yahoo isn't Google isn't my bro-in-law. Lemmy = email in general, yahoo = lemmy.ml, Google = lemmy.world, etc.

She immediately got it and has an account on some instance and has subscribed to a bunch of places.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, it's email but with a nice interface and open 'threads' which we can post on.

[–] ToastyWaffles@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

When can we get an emacs client for lemmy?

[–] BecomingTheFalcon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is probably my favorite analogy for it so far, at least as a high level overview. I kind of made the same connection myself and that’s when it clicked for me.

[–] EddieTee77@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I'll be using this to help explain it to my friends

[–] EddieTee77@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is a great way to think about it! Thank you. I'll be using this to help explain it to my friends

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

The email analogy has got to be the best way to describe the fediverse that I've seen so far.