Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood
Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood
The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.
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If you tell someone that fedi instances are like email providers and that your instance is transfem.social, that creates three expecations in your audience:
1)The main, or possibly only, way to access your fedi account on a desktop is through the transfem.social website.
2)The main, or possibly only, way to access your fedi account on a smartphone is through the transfem.social app. This app is completely separate from the apps that could be used to access a fedi account on another instance.
3)The primary difference between transfem.social and other fedi instances is the UI of the website and app.
Frankly, I don’t think this is that big of a deal. First introduce them to an instance, then once they figure that out, show them the apps and other ways to access that instance.
It's also not even close to how email works and plenty of people use email apps that aren't tied to a provider.
The app I'm using today has nothing to do with the instance I use.
Just like email... clients just speak a protocol, and use a particular manner of presentation.
That's literally my point.
Most people know that email isn't tied to a provider app.
Woosh! Your point went right over my head there! Hahaha, my bad
Apparently I phrased it badly because every vote on it is down lol.
So it's probably my bad.