• Badabinski@kbin.earth
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    27 days ago

    As others have said, email is a great way to get the point across without getting into nerd shit. I just say something like this: “You know how you can have an email account with Microsoft and can send messages to an email account at Google? Lemmy is that, but instead of sending and receiving emails, you’re looking at, voting on, and leaving comments on posts like you would on Reddit.”

    I have had a 100% success rate with this analogy when the person I’m talking to knows what Reddit is. If they don’t know, then I don’t really bother explaining it since it’s likely outside of their interests. I’m not out proselytizing for the Fediverse, but it comes up on occasion (especially when I share a links to shitposts).