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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I came up with what I think is a pretty good explanation when trying to explain the beehaw fiasco to a friend last night, here it is copy pastad

Think of it like cell service

You have TMobile, I have Google fi

But we can still talk because they both use 4g

But then Google fi blocked TMobile so I can't talk to you anymore

And if I want to be able to talk to people on TMobile and Google fi I would have to transfer my service to att

But also, the service is free to setup and run on your own

So instead of 3 or 4 big cell carriers there are thousands

Also, some added info: Also, with the fediverse, when you transfer service you can take your data with you Just like you can take your text messages and phone number with you Fediverse meaning all the apps that work this way, like mastodon and ~~Lemmy~~ (at least those ~~two~~ one have data transfers I think)

Edit: can't transfer account

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can't move your account to another instance atm if that's what you mean.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So how do we know we're choosing a good instance?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think we don't for now. I think we just have to accept we might have to change instances once in a while, especially while things settle.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh. Thanks for clearing that up for me

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's kind of like I have gmail and you have protonmail but we can still send emails to each other. Conversely emails from @nigerianprince.com will probably get spam filtered and you won't be able to communicate with them.