For now, i don’t know how to explain it and make it comprehensible to tech illiterate, let alone incite them to give a try for longer than the very short term.
If you are yourself a tech illiterate, which method worked for you?
If the tech illiterate is someone you know, which method was successful to convince them?
It’s like Twitter, but anybody is free to spin up their own instance, and they’re all inter-compatible, so any one can view content from any other.
That freedom and openness gives users choice. If one instance owner turns out to be a real dick, the community is able to move off of and blacklist it.
Email is an oft used example. Leaving Gmail doesn’t lock you out of email because you can switch to a different provider or (with enough effort) even run your own email.