Sometimes I struggle to convey what continues to fascinate me about dezentraly organized social media - its like explaining to someone who never played Go why its awesome who never played it.
And what I would usually recommend is (in the case of Go): watch hikaru no go (popular Go anime). I could teach them the rules, but to capture the spirit of it, I would also need to spend hours playing it with them. So instead, I give them an awesome series, which conveys the drama, fights, frustrations through story.
Would that also work for the fediverse? Sometimes I tend to get lost in technical details and how it tries to solve problems about moderation without conveing any of the daily drama and excitement I have - so what would be a good series/film/anime/book/comic that could convey this? Or do we need to create it?
Well, there is drama, like in any human community, it’s just that this community has half a million computer nerds.
It’s a bunch of people that have been leading the technological revolution of the past decades, all experimenting with something called the Fediverse.
While everything is new and there are a lot of changes, some things are more common than others.
PS Not everyone here is a computer nerd, though that’s something to take pride in IMO, but most of us kinda area.