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1. Patrick Loonstra 🕶️ (patrickloonstra@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Oct-2018 08:39:29 EDT Patrick Loonstra 🕶️

   I added Pixelfed to Producthunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pixelfed
   It already has 42 upvotes. But If we give it a push as Mastodon users, it can become nr 1 of the day easily.
   cc/ @dansup

   1. Jeremy (jdormit@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 29-Oct-2018 13:27:58 EDT Jeremy

      in reply to

      @patrickloonstra @dansup
      This is the problem we need to solve as Fediverse app developers. The vast majority of people don't know or care about ActivityPub or decentralized protocols. If we want federation to become the new paradigm, we need a better answer to this question.

      I've switched to not use the phrase ActivityPub as much as possible. It just doesn't resonate. Fediverse is better, but I still don't have a good sound byte to explain it to the layperson.

      1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Monday, 29-Oct-2018 13:36:11 EDT switching.social

         in reply to

         @jdormit @patrickloonstra @dansup

         I've tried to explain federation in simple terms here:

         https://switching.social/federated-sites/

         but if you want a tl/dr then I'd say this:

         If your phone company screws up, you can switch providers, and you can still call your friends because all phone companies are part of the single public phone network.

         Federated social networks work the same way.