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I would recommend Piefed.social or Piefed.world to normal people, explain it's a big message board where thousands of people post stuff to communities for specific interest an those posts show up in the feed on the main page sorted by how many people liked it.
It's good for following news, protests, learning about things you didn't know about, or finding community with likeminded individuals. E.G. there are popular communities for Linux, LGBT, Trains, Food, etc.
I would not recommend Lemmy in particular, because...
Well...
It's a fuckin psyop.
If the other person knows about Reddit and wonders why they would use the Fediverse instead you have to give them the big technical spiel about how Reddit has a singular owning entity which sold out to stock brokers and investors which made the platform worse with ads and bots, but the Fediverse is just a network of independent servers which communicate in the same format so nobody owns all of it and it cannot be bought or sold.
What happened to Lemmy?
It was created.
The main lemmy developers host Lemmy.ml who are a bunch of Tankies advocating for Russian invasion of Ukraine, among many other horrible atrocities. Here is a helpful documentation of their problematic behavior: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279
Now, other instances which use Lemmy as a framework to build on are perfectly fine, for now, but it's still bad to use a platform which garners support and funding from people for extremists and authoritarians. Which is why many people are making the move over to Piefed which is developed by different people than Lemmy.
Jeez. I knew they were tankies but I didn't know that they were deliberately leveraging their instance to put other instances at a disadvantage. I recently moved to piefed for an unrelated reason after a discussion about kbin, this place was said to have a faster rate of development.
Maybe .social is faster but the fellas at World haven't updated in a while lol