if I say "nerd social media" my gf know exactly what I'm talking about
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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I'm using this from now on. Thanks.
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The good internet
The good internet = TGI
TGIF = Thank ~~god~~ it's federated
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Threadiverse is a terrible name, the most immediate word association is Threads, ostensibly a large corporate competitor, and the most immediate search result is a geeky/nerdy tshirt/merch company.
Better names?
Fuck uh... I dunno.
Lemmyverse
Lemmy and Friends
Reddit Asylum Seekers Club (RASCL?)
The front page of Web 4.0
Fediverse's Fractious Forums
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"The United Link Aggregation Alliance of the Threaded Fediverse, which includes Lemmy, PieFed, kbin, and its fork mbin"
People’s Front of Judea vibes
Take that back, it's clearly giving Judean People's Front.
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I’ve taken a liking to threadiverse, though I think it might confuse some people given Meta’s Threads and Metaverse, people might assume it’s a mix of that.
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I generally don't. I don't find it to be a useful grouping to reference or discuss.
Try piefed.social
Try Discuss.online
Try beehaw.org
Try programming.dev
I'm always referring to one, never the group.
I wouldn't point them to Beehaw though, their segregated nature and difficult onboarding process make it less welcoming for newcomers to the Fediverse.
lemmy.blahaj.zone is a better choice for people who want LGBTQ friendly spaces.
I think this is a great illustration of my point. I like the culture beehaw.org has established more than what lemmy.blahaj.zone has encouraged. And I don't particularly care about "the fediverse". I care about the online communities I engage with.
Everyone is different and I make my recommendation based on what I think the person I'm making recommendations to would like most.
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What to call this stuff...
Jokingly:
webweb, 'cause it's a web of websites.
cross-fora, 'cause they're like cross-posts but entire forums.
newsvents, 'cause a lot of the activity is venting in news post comments. 😉
memecycling centers, 'cause it's a lot of reposts of old memes/shitposts.
Realistically:
Whatever instance/site I'm directing someone to.
stick-in-the-mud-tangent
I'd never tell someone to go to WordPress if I was telling them to go to a site built with Wordpress, that'd be silly and out of touch. It'd also be out of touch to use some jargon that means nothing to them like "threadiverse".
All the pointing to these backends as though they're platforms like the corporate platforms shows how much they've conditioned people into thinking in their terms. The major benefit to these backends is they're more open, enabling greater mobility between the instances of them/sites built with them.
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Social net.
Two words everyone understands. Also the two ideas that make the fediverse what it is.
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I would say Men of Low Moral Fibre but that's not inclusive...
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idk, fediverse seems fine to me
It is, but we're not really the same kind of platform than Mastodon or Misskey, or Pixelfed or Peertube
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-Fediread? And we could distinguish the others aspects of the fediverse servers: -Fediblog : Mastodon, Pleroma, etc. -Fediphoto: Pixelfed -Fedivideo: Peertube
Just call it Lemmy people need a simple name and Lemmy is fun to say
It's fun until people bring up that the main devs political positions are debatable https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs
And I said debatable because I have no strong opinion on the matter. That would make me a lib for some people, a leftist for others, I don't really care.
What I've seen is that argument is regularly brought up by detractors of the platform, which is why I always insist on saying that Piefed and Mbin are compatible and managed by other development teams
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"Fedup"
I've thought the same about "link aggregator" on join-lemmy.org, even though it seems like the best two words to use to describe such platforms, it needs further explanation most of the time.
Reddit was hard to market for the same reasons, although they had a pretty good name.
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