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Yep, I think it's part of the beauty of the federation, which at least in part stems from free software, open protocols and platforms not run for profit. Nobody has a target of getting as many users as possible, nor to fence them in a specific platform with the current system of incentives. As long as platforms are interoperable, I am happy if more will come up.
To some degree yes it’s very exciting, in others I think it is complex enough that it is going to have a lot of problems on its own. The most glaring one being that non-technical people’s eyes glaze over when I can’t explain it in a sentence or two. “It’s like having 1000 reddits that all link into one big one” doesn’t elicit a positive response, either lol
For new users, no need to explain in too much detail. Just get them onto a big instance (lemmy.world is probably the best now) and after they start, they can learn more about instance.
This is great to begin with, but eventually it would be absolutely fantastic to have some sort of a map of the entire space, to the extent that that's possible. As a new user, it's taken me some time to start to understand where all the people are, what communities can talk to what, etc. Looking forward to learning though.
You can say it is like e-mail. You don't need gmail to send an email to a gmal account.
Reddit is like whatsapp where everyone needs to be on the platform to communicate with eachother.