This infographic is still incomplete; I’m posting it here in the hope that I can get some feedback about it. It has three goals:
- To explain what federation is. No technobabble, just a simple analogy with houses and a neighbourhood.
- To explain why federation is good for users.
- [TODO] Specific info about the Fediverse, plus some really simple FAQ.
Criticism is welcome as long as constructive.
EDIT: OK, too much text. I’m clipping as much as I can.
That comic is really cool!
I’m not sure I like it. The content is fine, but it’s still pretty dense for a graphic. It all runs together and there is no place for the eye to “rest.”
Maybe some more space between each “frame.” If it’s still too dense, you might want to try to separate each “frame” with a subtle background color. Maybe using two different shades of light gray.
An additional thing you can do is add a flag or chimney to the houses. The flag might have a pig, X, or fediverse symbol. This will make it more clear what is going on between the houses.
flags/chimneys
Nice, I’m doing it. I was worried about colour-blind users, this helps with them.
I’m sorry but nobody curious or skeptical about fediverse is going to read that. It’s so complicated and so much text that it confirms their worst suspicions
I like it, but what I don’t like is analogizing every site owner as monarchy. A lot of fediverse instances are run as non-profits (including ours) and there’s also democratic experiments in instance control. I would prefer a different hat for fediverse, somehow :)
Phrygian cap maybe?
Noted. I’ll steal @[email protected]’s idea and use a Phrygian cap. Good catch!
wait, db0 is a registered non-profit?
It’s part of Haidra, which is.
db0 is our lord! Praise to / 0
Can you make a to&Dr version? If and infographic has as much text as post. It’s not an infographic, it a regular text with graphics.
IMO it’s too verbose. Infographics should be clear and concise with minimal text; this has so much text that the images don’t really add any substance.
Noted - I’ll try to trim it out, any suggestion on that?
Thank you for the feedback!
Maybe take the approach of showing very simple federation first, with as little text as possible (i.e. One short statement describing each graphic element), and perhaps only 3 “houses”. Because in the end, anything beyond that is just duplicating the same thing (yea, there’s more, but for an info graphic it really doesn’t matter).
You have no choice but to lose accuracy. You can either present a high-level, abstract/conceptual view of something, or present more detail. Getting the concept across first is essential; no one’s gonna grok any detail without the conceptual framework to hang it on.
Also, is that second house the same as the first house? It seems like you’re showing the owner of the house using a second graphic. That kind of info would work better perhaps on the right side, so you have internet user on left, and house owner on right. It makes for two clearly separate concepts.
I’d also give the characters names. “House owner” is harder for someone to keep in their head than “Bob”. Maybe internet user is Karen. Etc. “Karen uses Bob’s server to chat with people” is a lot easier to think about than “internet user” and “owner”.
A really good exercise is to try to make it as simple as possible while still getting the concept across, then adding detail.
perhaps only 3 “houses”
For the simplest example, you only need two. I’ve heard people explain it as “Reddit A” and “Reddit B”, with some success.
In my opinion there’s a good amount of text!
I like it, it’s very charming. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s likely non-fedi people would take the time to read through it tho :(
It’s very cute tho, excellent work.
TBH, instead of an infographic it feels like storytelling. It is an interesting read in the end. Loved how you dissed Franxx (but Zero Two forever). You could try to take a different approach from infographic and turn it into a comic maybe?
i find the concept of the infograpic having the complexity of a childrens picture book, but still being too complicated to be read through by redditors very saddening.
I’m actually thinking a lot about this.
I know that I’m verbose, so I need to keep the amount of words in check. But at the same time, I’d rather restrict the target audience to clueless but smart users, who could understand the concept. I feel like trying to tailor the material to the “waah 2+ lines of text TL DR lollmao” crowds is a waste of time.
TBH, instead of an infographic it feels like storytelling. […] You could try to take a different approach from infographic and turn it into a comic maybe?
You know what, that’s a great idea! insufferableninja also mentioned that there’s too much text for an infographic, but if I cut it out things get poorly explained. I can just reorganise some things here and there and boom, it’s like a comic strip! (a 9001-koma?)
(I actually like DitF, as flawed as it is. That quote is some obvious troll I saw in 4chan - I like to include this sort of stuff so it doesn’t get too serious.)
Maybe you can gather some ideas and wording from this guide https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
Since we’re posting Nazaré… Soon®:
Nazaré? Wait…
BRAZIL MENTIONED???
Senhora do Destino was made for memes. The whole soap opera. 🤣
I like it, good job! Well done with that pig reference ha ha
Thank you!
Well done with that pig reference ha ha
I knew that people here would get that one first, but the other two (the bot and the “vote in my dog” guy) are also references, hehe.
This looks like the story board to a CGP Gray video. Which is to say, the content is good, but the delivery should be a CGP Gray video.
The X icon looking a lot like a swastika… didn’t know if intentional or if others would pick up on that. Maybe sub for some other icon?
The similarity is totally a coincidence. Just like the one between a certain someone’s “my heart to you!” gesture and a Nazi salute. /s
All three (the bot, the Nazi, the pig) represent problematic kinglets of social media, who may or may not correspond to RL people.
![[WIP] Federation infographic, or "federation for dummies".](https://i.imgur.com/eOiJVZz.png){kind=link}