Fuhgeddit
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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We went with "forum style" fediverse platform
Nice guide!
forumnet? Boardpub?
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
Seriously. Mastodon is just a huge monoculture, and you probably wouldn't be able to tell a user's instance from their comments for example. While forumverse (i'm going to use this now xd) instances feel very defined and not too hard to tell where users are from (except with general instances, that can get hard.
To be fair, that's mostly because Lemmy is pretty small with just 50K MAUs. It feels more like a large forum than a full on social network.
If Lemmy had 1 M MAUs, I think the instance culture would be a lot less noticeable (national instances notwithstanding).
Versed is a bit easier to pronounce
Hold up, I kind of like "Versed".
Lemmy communities and Mbin magazines become "subversed"?
...Eh, it still needs work.
"Converse"? Dang it, a shoe company took that one.
"Fedi-converse"? "Fediversation"? Too long. Let's keep cooking... "Communiverse"?
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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.
"Fedup"
Disqus is actually a quite good name when you think about it
Sounds like disgust
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The Reddit-like structure of Lemmy, Mbin and I guess Piefed* make them kind of the Alaska of the Fediverse; they're not really connected to the rest of it. The other platforms without the community structures interoperate; you can comment on a Peertube video from a Pixelfed account...but that doesn't work with Lemmy and I'm not convinced I've ever interacted with Mbin.
*I just can't keep up with all the meaningless names I'm expected to remember. Hell I can't do it for people. "You know who Jim Flinnigan is?" "No I don't." "He's the freshman state congressman from Wisconsin who's proposing the controversial pecan legislation." "Oh the nut bill guy. What about him?" -1/4th of every conversation with my father, because Jim Flinnigan could be a work buddy of his, someone somewhere in Hollywood in the last 90 years, or the Wisconsin nut bill guy. "You know who Flinn Jimmigan is, right?" "No I don't." "He was Edith Head's optometrist in the 60's." On top of that, there's hardware manufacturers, the trade names for their products, commercial software apps, open source apps, a new javascript framework comes out three times a leap second...
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Does anybody has a better name other than "fediverse"? I find it pretty terrible due to my native language.
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Feditriad/feditrinity???
Jk. I think forumverse works fine, i guess. Threadi sounds weirder imo but that's just personal opinion
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how about we call it
THIS.
or
/THREAD
or
fuckspez
or lemmyseedemBeans
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