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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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I tried to explain the Fediverse to the marketing department at my company and the looks of confusion just made me gave up.
"It's like email. We have our company domain and others have theirs and it all just works"
That's a great start to an explanation, but first, you are assuming that people know how email works, and second, unlike email, federated social media has discovery, feeds, and in general content that gets pushed to you. How all of that works can be complicated and if you join a small instance, you may not realize how much content you are missing because of it.
https://xkcd.com/2501/
In some cases, I think technical explanations aren't necessary. For some people, the recommendation could be more like
The marketing department doesn't need to know how email works in order to set up newsletters