I am trying to persuade my new radio club to get a fediverse account, which apparently involves teaching some more "cautious" members of the club what the fediverse is.

Does anyone have suggestions for existing explanation of what the fediverse is aimed at "regular people"?

Also, anyone got examples of fun
#hamradio things which happen or are talked about on fedi? I know there's a winlink net or something? Maybe other things like that?
@cadair Hi Stuart! While not a ham radio operator myself I work with a lot of awesome radio people on my feed. @ai6yr is on a vacation trip, but I’ll put his name out there, as well as @bud_t. Quite sure they give you they could give you some suggestions!
@BakerRL75 @cadair @bud_t I suggest you look at the "local" feed of mastodon.radio (https://mastodon.radio/public/local) and mastodon.hams.social (https://mastodon.hams.social/public/local) -- to get an idea of some of the more ham radio related discussions. One advantage of the Fediverse is you can gather folks on a server who have similar interests...
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@cadair Great! Teach me while you're at it. I have no clue about any fediverse.
@cadair social Media without multi- billionaires that show strange behaviour but a community instead.
@cadair I think when the Fediverse gets over-explained, it turns people off, the main thing for the radio club is that it’s a Twitter like communications channel that is popular and open source. My thought is you don’t need to run your own server or have to explain any other nuts and bolts just that it’s a social media channel that people can sign up for and your club can have a presence that’s great for announcements, news, and blog like items
@cadair I would have expected especially such a group to understand transmiting voice into the aether 😅🫠
@mtrnord @cadair Thats a great analogy actually
@cadair It's in many ways like a linked repeater system.
@cadair Follwing… as we failed miserably in getting a discord server recognized as being “official”