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It's been difficult to broach the subject and explain the technical concepts to the average person. I did have some success in first sharing the email comparison, which lead into interoperability.

I'm just curious to hear people's success stories, if you have any.

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[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"It's like email. You can have an account on Gmail and still send emails to Outlook".

Edit: just saw that you mentioned email, so that's usually the easiest analogy.

About success stories, I don't have many, people I know IRL weren't interested in Reddit, so Lemmy is the same.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is literally how I explained it to somebody tonight actually.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How things went? Did you convince them successfully?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was focused more on making them aware of it, rather than trying to get them to use it. Just socializing the idea. So it was a success! They are aware of it now, but they are not yet using it

[–] technomad 2 points 5 months ago

Gotta send them more memes.