I made a simple diagram to help show people who aren't on the #Fediverse how it works. Feel free to share with people who want to escape #Musk and #Zuckerberg but feel intimidated by the Fediverse.
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Als Antwort auf Joshua McNeill • • •Unfortunately, I have to point out a design error in your drawing,
There are no borders between the individual services, so the drawing is not suitable. In reality, all instances of all software projects in the Fediverse are wildly mixed.
The sorting suggests that each project is separate, but this is not the case.
The following logo shows the distribution much better
Sven222
Als Antwort auf crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts • •But the idea is for sure right, there are no borders between the different software services. That is how the fediverse logo developed.
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Als Antwort auf Sven222 • • •@joshisanonymous@h4.io
Joshua McNeill
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Als Antwort auf Joshua McNeill • • •OK, why didn't it scare away the few million users before?
A simple but false explanation only makes it worse, not better.
The fediverse is just a bag of colourful marbles.
You are welcome to use our instance cloud to show the limits of the individual softwares
tube.tchncs.de/w/xd4emjFTvQSp8…
Joshua McNeill
Als Antwort auf crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts • • •@crossgolf_rebel Because not an people are lack technological savvy?
Look, having just over a million active users is a tiny drop in the bucket, and it's been widely acknowledged that the onboarding process for Fediverse platforms is not the most user-friendly thing, so a simple explanation is very much needed.
Furthermore, this is literally how all teaching works: you oversimplify at first before adding bits and pieces that complicate the picture. I'm not sure why you think that's harmful.
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Als Antwort auf Joshua McNeill • • •Simple, please. These are blue balls
It is simple but wrong
And, a simple description for a complex structure can only ever be wrong, however good the intention behind it may be.
The instances and the software installed on them are sorted exactly as shown in the picture. There is no sorting.
This is because it is quite common for three or more different pieces of software to be involved in a single conversation.
Joshua McNeill
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Als Antwort auf Joshua McNeill • • •it is neither my own logo nor anything else. I'm just annoyed by the misrepresentations of the fediverse that have been going on for years, because unfortunately they cause discord and controversy.
Unfortunately, there are enough Mastodon admirers who consider this software to be the crown of creation and want to remove everything that is not Mastodon. They use such simple representations to support their theses.
Ultimately, your simplification is not correct either, because even mastodon has three different types of software
If you want to make it simpler, then represent instances as circles with a nice colourful mix for the different software and connect them. Without the ballast of representing the types as separate networks
That would be simplified and quite correct
Sven222
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Joshua McNeill
Als Antwort auf Sven222 • • •Sven222
Als Antwort auf Joshua McNeill • •crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts mag das.
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Als Antwort auf Sven222 • • •Unfortunately, @joshisanonymous@h4.io does not understand the fediverse and tries to explain it by means that do not apply to the fediverse.
And as for the insult, my English isn't good enough to understand that.
Again, your diagram is technically wrong and also symbolically wrong.
The picture of the coloured balls still fits best.
Draw 5 connections from each ball to any of the balls in the picture.
That is the Fediverse.
You can simplify such a pattern so that it fits halfway.
Each connection of a single instance in the Fediverse is unique, a chaos of connections. On this basis, every ordered image is always wrong.