Something people who are good with tech stuff need to remember, because all too often they don't.
What's obvious to you isn't what's obvious to everyone. Including the person you're talking to, who probably feels stupid because they haven't seen or understood this "obvious" thing.
I feel like that is very indicative of the culture of Masto, right now. This is NOT a very intuitive platform & there have been very few who seem at all interested in explicitly deconstructing the jargon/vocabulary of it (“instances”/“servers”/etc).
THIS WILL ALIENATE PEOPLE FROM THIS PLATFORM. I promise. The vibrancy of birdsite came from its ease in adoption by PoC & SWs, ppl who are excluded most by techie-subculture.
Accessibility=adoption=creating diverse culture.
@ShelfReader @Nezchan instances are inherent to the structure and cannot be removed or abstracted away. a server is the machine that runs an instance which is the website. perhaps you can help come up with easier words with lay people because instance and server sound like great words to me a programmer. local site and federation might be easier?
@Vopo @ShelfReader @Nezchan village and commonwealth?
@Eve @ShelfReader @Nezchan what's a commonwealth
@Vopo @ShelfReader @Nezchan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth
but I guess this term already fails as a nontechnical option lol
@Eve @ShelfReader @Nezchan town and country. is a commonwealth basically a country? ooooh what about country and world?
@Vopo @ShelfReader @Nezchan i think a commonwealth is more like an alliance or group of countries. somehow this seems to capture the idea of instances being federated only with those others they share a common identity with, but idk
@Nezchan @ShelfReader @Eve tootdon calls it local and federation which is similar
@Vopo @Nezchan @ShelfReader that seems transparent enough
@Eve @Nezchan @ShelfReader yeah nez thought of neighborhood and community which I think is also good if they scrunch their nose at local and federation.
Honestly, I LOVE “#Federation”. I’m an Anarcho-Syndicalist, so I’m all about that concept. Let’s just find a way to articulate that metaphor a bit better.
I don’t think most people get what Federations are & how compiling autonomous communities is important to a social network, online. I’d like to find a way to break that down to people.
@Eve @ShelfReader @Nezchan Ahh yeah. hmm that is an important aspect. yeah it's a nation and its allies.