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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (3 children)

if I say "nerd social media" my gf know exactly what I'm talking about

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The nerdiverse

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

/thread

Issue closed as resolved.

I'm using this from now on. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The good internet = TGI

TGIF = Thank ~~god~~ it's federated

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank Graphics Interchange Format?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"The United Link Aggregation Alliance of the Threaded Fediverse, which includes Lemmy, PieFed, kbin, and its fork mbin"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People’s Front of Judea vibes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Take that back, it's clearly giving Judean People's Front.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

lemmy. come at me kbinners

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fuck facebook for stealing the name metaverse BTW.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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-tangentI'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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

PiembimmyBB

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Soon to be "digg alternative"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fedi... Been doing it and it works

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like FBI is knocking

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Federated Boards of Internet

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Social net.

Two words everyone understands. Also the two ideas that make the fediverse what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I would say Men of Low Moral Fibre but that's not inclusive...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

idk, fediverse seems fine to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (12 children)

It is, but we're not really the same kind of platform than Mastodon or Misskey, or Pixelfed or Peertube

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Disqus is actually a quite good name when you think about it

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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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