When I tell people the only social media I use is Lemmy, I always wait patiently for follow up questions immediately after, which never come, because nobody gives a shit about what obscure social media the 35 year old man uses.
I just say "I frequent a few niche forums". No follow up questions. I'm old as well.
I frequent forums, too. Mostly car and motorcycle forums. Lemmy doesn't really have those kinds of forums.
If you have content please post it. I'd love to have a motorcycle forum here but can't really add content
You wanna see me install a Raspberry Pi 3 into my minivan to run the rear seat entertainment system? ๐
I'm more of a lurker than anything else haha. I scour forums for issues my cars/bikes are dealing with, and occasionally will ask a question here or there. I don't really make many posts anymore, unless I'm doing a specific job or troubleshooting process that I haven't seen documented anywhere else.
I told one of my co-workers I used Lemmy, and he actually used Mastodan, so I'm the one who ended up asking him questions
As a 23 year old man, i quite often get the follow up "whats lemmy" but nothing beyond that.
โItโs like Reddit but lessโ
"Less bad?" They ask.
"Well yes, but also just less."
Not even big instances, but big platforms I would say. Like, if you're lucky someone might have heard about Mastodon, but that's pretty much it.
โAh yes the Dinosaur mato thing? Failed twitter alternative right?โ
(actual quote from a convo Iโve had)
The original comic is actually genius, and very true.
You clearly see it when the Linux users start prostletysing.
I want to like Linux and leave Windows, but when I say that I don't want to be forced to use CLI/terminal because I don't live in the 1970s, people get angry at me.
If all you do is web browse and play games, you should be able to use Linux without the CLI just fine.
I installed Ubuntu in a VM to torrent with mulvad. I had to go to the command line. Worse was googling gave multiple contradictory instructions that further reading yielded "deprecated".
I made it work because I've been doing it for 30 years. Anyone else would be better with Windows where it just works.
This is the most Lemmy interaction I've seen in awhile:
Linux is fine without CLI for web browsing.
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But when I needed an advanced secure virtual machine isolated torrent solution, I had to use the CLI.
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Here's some thoughts on accomplishing that in Linux without the CLI.
I'm not complaining, just watching in admiration of you all.
Huh, why not just use QBittorrent? I've never even felt the need to reach for the command line with torrents (Linux ISOs of course) because it works so well.
been on Linux mint for a year now and the only time i use the terminal is to git push to update my website. so far, nothing else I've been doing has needed the terminal.
You brought this on yourself, you realise that, right?
Silly to get angry about, because you can use Linux just fine without it. But the terminal is a powerful tool.
The CLI does some things so fast though. I myself like bypassing the gui and interacting more directly. Same reason I only drive manual cars and grind my own coffee (autistic?) But yes, I am glad linux has a gui and we shouldn't force the cli on people who grew up with ipads.
Iโve never felt like a bigger idiot than when I try to explain the fediverse to normal people.
I find it easier if the other person is a podcast listener.
"You know how podcast ads usually say 'listen to it in Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts?' It's a bit like that."
If not, I have to say something weak or complicated like "it's a bit like email, dunno how to explain this if you have never thought about how email works, though".
That's a really good analogy.
The email one works too once they realize they've never actually thought about what an email is. Like:
"If I send you an email from gmail, you can open it in outlook, right?" "Yeah"
"That's because an email is just a file that both gmail and outlook can use" "makes sense"
"Can I see your Twitter post on Reddit?" "No of course not"
"But i can see Lemmy (Reddit) posts on Mastodon (Twitter). And these apps aren't owned by huge companies. Normal people run each instance, and the software is free for anyone to use or host."
Hey.. so you know about Email, right?
How you're with Gmail and I with.. say Proton. And we can still send Emails to each other? ...
Is my go to approach
That's a pretty good analogy.
I always start with, ok, so you know the internet is basically a series of tubes right? Once we are on the same page about that, I start talking about ipv4 and ipv6 including a mention of dual stack supporting instances.
For those on traditional social media, I just say "What if Facebook and Twitter and YouTube could all talk to each other? People on Facebook could follow people on Twitter and people on Twitter can follow people on Facebook." Then they usually reply "that would be neat" and then I tell them "yeah, that's what we are building over here in the fediverse."
It usually is easier to give them an analogy related to something they are familiar with.
[off topic?] When William Gibson was researching 'Neuromancer' he spent a lot of time hanging out with hackers. They'd tell stories and he'd catch about a quarter of what they were talking about.
When it came to write the book he decided that he'd make the book like that, the reader would have to push though a lot of things that didn't make sense until they acquired more information.
To top it all off, I share this to discord groups where nobody even knows what the fediverse is.
Duh, she is the fediverse chick after all
It's so annoying to me because she kinda looks like an ex with the same name
Goddamnit! I love this and want to share it, but don't know anyone else that will appreciate it. Is this.. irony?
What is misskey? I am a fediverse user and I don't even know what that is.
Microblog platform out of Japan
https://misskey-hub.net/en/
A yeah, Nicole hit me yesterday again. ๐๐๐
Hmm new picture once again
Story of my life. I'm so annoyed when the response is to try to get me to shut up my flattering my intelligence. "Wow you use big words, anywayyyy". Id rather you tell me you just don't care. Then I can stop wasting my time. It took me a long time to realize what was going on, lmao.
Early in my career I learned not to overestimate anybody's familiarity with my field.
Nice one
This isn't just Reddit with extra geeks?
Memes about the Fediverse.
Other relevant communities:
