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You know how email works, so you get it instantly, but for someone else it'll be like "I have a Red car, you have a Blue car, but we can both drive to the same place!!"
"Like who cares if I have Gmail ?"
I mean that'd be what people think IMO.
Better not trying to explain the fediverse by it's technology for starters, again IMO. Just explain what you can do, like there is twitter, reddit and forums or something more appealing.
I don't think someone needs to know how email works to understand it. They just need to have a friend who isn't using the same email service they are, and I bet just about everybody can relate to that.
*What is the fediverse? Ok, so do you use Gmail? Do you have friends that use Outlook or a company email? You use gmail, they don't, but you can still send messages back and forth. So, imagine that for twitter. Right now the only people who can use twitter are people who have accounts on twitter.com. Mastodon is like that, but you don't need to be on mastodon.org. It's like email, you can be on any mastodon server you want and you can talk to all the other mastodon servers. What makes it better? Say someone like Elon Musk comes in and changes all the rules. On twitter, you are stuck, you have to stay on twitter.com and you have to live with Musk's new rules. With Mastodon, if some jerk comes and takes over your instance, you can just move to a new one."
"what is a server"
You gotta up your pitch. But the part with Elon coming in and changing the rules is good IMO, that's why the fediverse is better and why I'm here, for example. Not because some revolutionary email tech 😉.