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I just explained Fediverse to my friend: (buddyverse.one)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not even email. Usenet is almost identical to Lemmy. There are many Usenet servers which talk to each other and synchronize their message groups. And you connect to one of them with a local account.

IRC as well but more chat like.

Of course there are differences in the fediverse but the big concepts are hardly new. People are trying to overcomplicate it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Fair enough. But email is the most pervasive example we can use today tbh.

I'm in my mid-20s... I'm the last of the generation of people who know that there's more than just Gmail and Outlook. The fact that Outlook is actually a client as well as a host is something people might not even know today.