How to explain to a tech illiterate how Mastodon works? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by stemy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

For now, i don't know how to explain it and make it comprehensible to tech illiterate, let alone incite them to give a try for longer than the very short term.

If you are yourself a tech illiterate, which method worked for you?

If the tech illiterate is someone you know, which method was successful to convince them?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

A Mastodon instance is one Twitter, but there are many. Through federation they work together to appear as one Twitter.

this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026

46 points (96.0% liked)

Asklemmy

54106 readers

162 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS