Most people don't have the patience to listen to a sales pitch. I think we need to start with a concept that is easy for most people to understand. For me, "Reddit alternative" is the simple concept.
Yeah but we still need to start with an easy concept before going into details. I would at least start by saying "Similar to Reddit but better in multiple ways."
For me, I was actively looking for an alternative to Reddit. So when I heard fediverse was somewhat similar to Reddit, it immediately made me want to try it. I only found out about the federation, different servers etc after I properly started trying to use Lemmy/Kbin at that time.
It is not unpractical. You don’t need to follow every bullet point for every conversation. In most cases a normal professional conversation just need to be respectful. Some of the non violent techniques are only important in specific situations (e.g. difficult colleague in a stressful scenario)
I don't feel loyalty to any particular country, not even my own. We all live on this small planet called Earth.
That said, I wouldn't mind taking the pledge for immigration purposes, as long as I respect the country's values (democracy, laws, and so on). Canada seems cool.
I usually don't watch his show (I prefer Stephen Colbert and John Oliver).
But I've just watched the whole return monologue, and subscribed to Jimmy's channel because of recent events.