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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."
@Ciaraioch Funny ‘cos it’s true :) (Lots of folks are trying to find simple ways to explain the basic concepts but it’s definitely an ongoing challenge.)
@aral @Ciaraioch I'll give it a try 
On Twitter, there's a single "place" where people signup and do social stuff.
The same goes for Facebook.
People on Twitter cannot interact with people on Facebook and viceversa.
On Mastodon there are multiple "places" and people decide in which one they want to signup and do social stuff.
They can also interact with other people from the other places. People can move from one place to another if and whenever they want without losing any data.
@aral @Ciaraioch This is way simplistic but that's the way I'd try to explain it while minimizing as much as possible the tech jargon. 
has any of the recently-welcome fedizens found any of them to make sense of the notion of federation?
#TwitterMigration