Laura Folco
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."
Mark Dennehy@Ciaraioch Well, now you know what sex ed was like for boys in the 1980s.
GaaliGraphy@markdennehy @Ciaraioch that was waaaaaaaaayyyyy too funny!
Godfrey642@markdennehy @Ciaraioch hahahaha hahahaha love it.. 🤣
Dan Vera ✅Can concur.
The "educational" film strips in the school cafetoriums live on.
Reido@markdennehy @Ciaraioch You, too, huh? They talked around reality so much I was way more confused when they were done. Danny on the playground was much more explicit and, seemingly, well-informed.
Sandra 🇮🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Ciarán O'Brien@Ciaraioch It's just common sense, like
veryoddrequest@Ciaraioch look for the side swipes and the scrolley scrolls.
aine@Ciaraioch people are talking about things I can't even see, feels like I'm back in honours maths all though I'll probably stick with this for longer!!
CB Uí Foghlú@Ciaraioch omg dying 😭 🤣
Jimothy 🐢@Ciaraioch “Are ye on that Master Dom site again?” No mam I already told you it’s mastodon
Seán Flah ☑️@jimothy @Ciaraioch Back in the dark ages when I had a hotmail account and I casually mentioned the address to my parents... "And what do you be doing [raised eyebrow] on this HOTmail craic???" says the mother.
"It's just an email account."
"Don't be throwing fancy words at me all right..."
...
was B (this is my old account)@SeanFlah "Hot males?!??" 🤨
sj_zero"Mom you just can't handle my new hotness."
julia zylinder@SeanFlah @jimothy @Ciaraioch i heard they dont do email these days they do hotmal! my mother told me back in the 1990s
Elena ``of Valhalla''@jimothy @Ciaraioch are you telling us that there is no instance called Master Dom? Shocking :D
Mathias Hellquist 🤘 
David K@Ciaraioch it’s all made possible by the Retro Encabulator https://youtu.be/RgaKjVXK0KA
Rockwell Retro Encabulator - Technical Information
HACKthePRISONSdid everyone else know there was a follow-up and just never tell me?
SANS ICS HyperEncabulator
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@bigMouthCommie @dkellyj @Ciaraioch Wow, there are multiple! (referenced in the latest one) Going to look into the various Turbo Encabulators now.
Or actually judging from the description of the hyper, it seems the retro was the followup of the turbo?
> This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. [ . . . ] The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. [ . . . ]
> Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent.farside.link/invidious/watch?v…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7x…
> Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent.farside.link/invidious/watch?v…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7x…
Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉
Paul Ó Duḃṫaiġ@dkellyj @Ciaraioch awh classic video, from an actual company as well.
Car Seat French Fry@dkellyj @Ciaraioch this is the first plumbus
Kev@Ciaraioch this is unfair but accurate
Mel☯️🌻@alisca @Ciaraioch you just described my life
FPrime 🏳️🌈🦦@Ciaraioch Yup, has very much this energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE
Plumbus: How They Do It | Rick and Morty | Adult Swim
Rachel Handley
Ivan Flis@Ciaraioch That's exactly how it feels to sit down and play DnD for the first time. 😆
@ivanflis @Ciaraioch or the Magic card game
Donna's Heart@ivanflis @Ciaraioch That is funny, but true! LOL
Andrew (Television Executive)@Ciaraioch I just wish I could still florp a ping. #RIPCybreSpace
Cyber Yuki
@yuki2501 Gen 1, I had cybre.space before I started self hosting, 5+ years ago.
Kebo Kitanari@Ciaraioch So an actually good explanation would be like:
What if Twitter wasn’t just one big website but a bunch of smaller websites that are all linked to each other?
@kebokyo @Ciaraioch And you had to pick one without any idea why or how and then had to know the exact address of someone you want to follow or you won't be able to find them. And then you throw your phone against the wall.
Kevin Teljeur ❄️
Abigail Goben@Ciaraioch but what about fraschnogs?
yujiri@Ciaraioch i don't know why this is so funny to me
@Ciaraioch this should be a copypasta
Matt W@Ciaraioch it definitely has a Usenet feel to it lol (yeah I’m old lol)
Joan of Contention 😷
DeeAnn Little@Ciaraioch pretty much, yep. I've had problems trying to explain it without using too much jargon but still at times end up losing the plot to where people think that they have to run and manage their own kerflunk to be able to send a bloop.
Jon ☎️@chillicampari @Ciaraioch This is the explanation I used recently that I think was pretty clear (and did indeed use the email analogy):
"Twitter but instead of being one big website it's a bunch of small ones. But like email if you sign up on one you can talk to people on the others"
eviloatmeal@Ciaraioch "fediverse gets easier once you get the basic idea that kerflunks are homeomorphic endobloops mapping submaniflurgles of a bumblurt space."
Natanael ⚠️@eviloatmeal @Ciaraioch is the fediverse a non euclidian space?
"The fediverse is haunted."
What?
*loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket chat* "The fediverse is haunted."
Caitríona Shanahan@Natanael_L @eviloatmeal @Ciaraioch Isn’t the Fedeverse a tennis tournament set up by Roger? Him, Rafa and Andy playing the top teams from other planets?
@Caitriona @Natanael_L @Ciaraioch
"Welcome to the Grand Slam.
Here's your chance, do your dance,
at the Grand Slam.
Alright."
"Welcome to the Grand Slam.
Here's your chance, do your dance,
at the Grand Slam.
Alright."
@eviloatmeal @Ciaraioch That does help.
Kinky Kobolds@eviloatmeal @Ciaraioch you only need to transversally anglemeep your turboencabulator to harmoniax your wanglers.
HackerSquirrel@eviloatmeal @Ciaraioch and it costs zero marklars!
tamaramilessc@Ciaraioch made me laugh. I hope your instance is in my house or something like that. 😅🤗
@LitTam @Ciaraioch When your moons align in Saturn you'll be able to communicate.
Vegard😕@Ciaraioch 😂 oyess .. as a zero tech i resently(👀 ) started having thoughts, what social networks could, would, should be.. resembling(or why not outright mimiking?)how humans interact, family group, friends, city, country(category i would like to see moot)public square, anonymous corner... would seeem attainable, of course politics enter here..
@Ciaraioch as for ownership1 person 1 share anythig more is yours to defend