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Quitting Reddit's hard, but it's heartening to see just how many people are posting from different instances here! I've got to admit, even after Mastadons limited success, before today I never seriously thought that federated social media would actually ever work. It just seemed to complicated for average person to grok.
Here we all are though! Decentralizing the decision making for who gets to post and host, what gets seen and what doesn't, seems to be worth fighting for. For enough of us at least to make this corner of the internet interesting for a while.
I've got a question though, are there any non technical people here? If you are interested in technology do you know non technical people who are participating in the black out?
How do you see that?
Oh, yeah definitely. I'm still struggling to wrap my head around the most basic things. Like, initially I created multiple accounts until I realized I could actually just search for stuff in other instances.
On the website if the username looks like user@instance.com, then it is a user from another instance.