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Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook (www.youtube.com)

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This reminds me of Tom Scott's excellent video on electronic voting machines, where he mentioned that the system for counting votes needs to be easily understandable to the average person so that they can adequately trust it.

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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

I've watched the whole video through, and honestly that felt like an underbaked take. People will have difficulty understanding federation? Seriously!? Surprise surprise, but if you know what email is, you already understand federation.