If they know what email and reddit it are, Lemmy should be pretty easy to understand, at least from a user-perspective. Replace reddit with Twitter/Bluesky for mastodon, Instagram for pixelfed, etc, etc. I don’t think understanding how email works at a tech level is important for being able to use it. Ditto for fediverse.
But what if you also are forced married to the security first?
That your busy checking your emails
I thought he got famous for anti-semetic jokes he made in his late-20’s.
any of the tens (hundreds?) of alternative servers that offer literally exactly the same thing.
Awesome Lemmy Instances shows nearly 500 and its outdated.
Some people pay a lot of attention to what instances people are from. I think I’ve had someone who jumped to negative assumptions about me because of what instance I’m using and I think I might have seen like one person from this instance - I pretty much never see people using the same instance, so its weird imagining someone seeing it enough to have an assumption about the users.
There are some servers that are a bit more tight-knit (hexbear comes to mind).
Feel like Matrix or Email would have made more sense as a federated service for communication, but get Signal is a lot more well known.
Does everyone eventually end up using the crabs bathroom?