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It's not that complicated, if you know the person you are trying to teach you could just appropriate a short analogy.
For example if I was talking to a CSGO player I would just tell them Reddit, Twitter, etc are just plain AK47s while the fediverse is a M4A4 that you get to choose a skin for (the site that you sign up to access the fediverse).
Hi. I know about food, dancing, grammar, cats, civil lawsuits in the US, nail polish, and biology. Can you help me?
[Reddit, Twitter, etc.] => [Fediverse]
Plain food => food but you get to choose (which) spice(s)
Plain dancing => dancing but you can choose which clothes to wear while dancing
Plain grammar => talking but you can choose a dialect and or accent
Plain cat => you can choose which cat you like from an animal shelter
Though they all fundamentally revolve around platforms that enable sharing content, the main difference usually is, at least to me personally, the interface through which you access the content.
Can't think of (good) analogies for lawsuits, sadly don't know enough about nail polish, and it's too late into the night for me to think about biology.
It's also too late for me to see if what I said made sense or is plain bullshit
It's kinda ridiculous that you describe the non-federated websites as plain even though it's the fediverse that has a problem with too little content. lol