• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    4 days ago

    It’s not as complicated as it seems. How I would explain it to reddit people:

    Think about Reddit and let’s say Digg. Imagine if you could use digg.com but also see posts from reddit on it. There would be an “all” feed with posts from both sites, each labelled as coming from either reddit.com or digg.com. There would also be a “local” feed with just the digg.com posts.

    Now switch reddit and digg with lemmy.world, aussie.zone, and a hundred others.

    • javasux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Now switch reddit and digg with lemmy.world, aussie.zone, and a hundred others.

      And that I think underscores the problem; most people want a social network, and not a hundred loosely connected social networks.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      1·
      3 days ago

      I usually compare Fediverse to email, as that’s familiar to everyone online. You can email people on the same domain, you can email people on other domains.

      You can even send emails that become sms messages, which is sorta like interacting with Mastodon folk.

  • cummytummy@aussie.zone
    1·
    3 days ago

    I wish there was an easier way to find/subscribe to communities in other instances. I’m using thunder but I can’t quite figure out an easy way to do so

    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      How do you find new communities now? If you can describe that other folk using Thunder might be able to help.

      I don’t really subscribe. I just browse All and block anything I don’t want to see. I had to block a lot of anime (because a lot is just sexualised children), crypto and ai.

      The only issue is I think that there will be a lot of stuff I may never see, because I think someone has to be subscribed to a community from another instance for it to appear in All for me.