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Do you think this fediverse-analogy is any good for telling people about the fediverse?

(FYI: I'm not a native speaker so please bear with some potential grammatical errors)

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[โ€“] A_Menace_To_Society@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I find this drawn out analogy condescending, people aren't that stupid and federation is not that hard to explain.

[โ€“] blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Condescending to whom?

Edit: ok, in my circle, people have problems to understand federation and what's actually the merits of it in a practical sense. If you only know people that understand it quickly anyways, don't send it to them