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Is there a short "what is this network" explainer for my parents?

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My parents ask what I am doing on this forum. I said 'a voluntary network of people who build useful things' and my mother said 'like a cooperative?' which, honestly, is a better summary than mine.

Is there a three-sentence explanation in plain language? Not marketing, not technical. Something that I can read aloud on a Sunday.

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Let me try, and correct me: YU Network is a voluntary community for building, publishing and trading together. Names ending in .yu are shown inside a free app, they do not replace the normal internet. Nobody is forced, everybody can leave with their data.

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That I understand. Add: 'and it is for everybody who wants to learn, even grandmothers.'

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Great, and maybe one more line for the skeptical uncle: it is not a country, it is not a state, it does not claim territory. The domain is not the country, the people are the network.

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Printed. Reading at lunch on Sunday. Will report my mother's reaction.

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Report: she nodded and asked if there is a cooperative for bakers. I take that as approval.

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