I just tell people it's a network of websites that you can use one login for. Like using your Google account to sign into pornhub.
No follow up questions.
I've only been here a couple days, but from what I've seen so far, lemmy is significantly more left wing than reddit at large (which is really saying something), and I've seen basically zero pushback on that.
Obviously we don't want to encourage extremist right wingers to come in and trash the place, but it also wouldn't hurt to have some more mainstream appeal.
Kill me.