No, I saw that one. It says nothing about jerboa ending support, just that you won’t be able to run it on “certified” devices. I.E. I’ll have to go through the “allow uncertified apps” nonsense, and install it from somewhere other than Google Play. Presumably it’s available on F-Droid.

I use the app and have received no such notification.

Where are you getting that jerboa is ending support? There’s nothing of the sort on github or on /c/jerboa. I’ve no doubt they’re not gonna register a google developer account, but that"s really got nothing to do with development of the app.

Works largely the same as reddit, just smaller and more distributed.

The go-to analogy is e-mail. You pick a particular e-mail provider, say gmail.com or yahoo.com, and create your account there, but that doesn’t stop you from sending messages to anyone with any other provider, or them sending messages to you. In the fediverse/lemmyverse/whatever, same thing, you create an account on whatever server/instance you feel like, and use that to see posts and messages from any other server/instance in the network.

Occasionally, you might hear the term “federation” which is the process of different servers/instances syncing their content with each other. It’s not foolproof, and sometimes doesn’t work properly. But generally, you won’t have to care about the nuts and bolts of the protocol.

I’m surprised I’ve never made this connection before. What a wonderfully easy-for-most-people-to-understand analogy.

Hey now, don’t underestimate it, it’s PRETTY famous. I’m 35, and I heard it as a kid.

Who’s on first, What’s on second, I don’t know’s on third.