I’ve had success describing it as “imagine you owned the server your Facebook info was stored on but could still interact with all other Facebook servers”. It’s a little simplified, but it usually gets the point across.
Comment on Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results for Google (+ other search engines)
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months agoI have been regularly sharing shit with friends that I see in Lemmy, and they always said to me why my links always have weird domains and shit… so I proceed to explain and we get to nowhere.
Anyway this is people that weren’t even into Reddit, so that people are the harder to get, IMHO.
qooqie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Guys… I finally understood the Fediverse! I made a Threads account!!! /s
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Sounds like a “them” problem, you keep doing what you’re doing. Maybe they’ll eventually get it, maybe not. Unless you give up sharing content with them entirely, of course, but that’s your choice.
otter@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It really was silly of Lemmy to not have community specific links, it’s even more confusing that way. Now it’s just a bunch of
{weird-domain}/post/{number}
You never know what it is unless you have link previews
nix@merv.news 8 months ago
Yeah hopefully its possible to change that without breaking anything
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That wouldn’t be the Lemmy experience, no hating here 😀
Salix@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
otter@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Thanks!