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Can someone describe the lingo 'fediverse'? I can hazard a guess but don't want to make assumptions.

remram 5y ago
It refers to the domains federating via the ActivityPub protocol. Software or deployments of software able to talk to each other via ActivityPub are referred to as the Fediverse.
miduil 5y ago
Just to quote Wikipedia as it reflects what fediverse means quite well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse > The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. Usually they talk about ActivityPub, as a growing number of services are based on this (or similar).
- boardwaalk 5y ago
  I honestly thought it had something to do with a fetish community up until now. Which I suppose it not entirely wrong when considering some of the stuff on Mastodon. It's still a bad name though.
  - zksmk 5y ago
    I was honestly confused for a second why would you think the name had anything to do with a fetish (minus some mastodon content) until I realized you saw it as fe-diverse and not fedi-verse. I never saw it that way because I pronounce the "i" in it as "ee", not as "ay". I wonder what's more common now. Is this another gif/jif situation?
  - mariusor 5y ago
    Apologies for the negativity, I'm feeling excessively bitchy at the moment, but how about you improve your reading comprehension instead of having bad takes at other people's naming efforts?
  - klabb3 5y ago
    I concur. My first thought was it was some federal government "fellow kids" effort. It's a shame because I'm really, really excited about a Renaissance of the federated web.
- dreyfan 5y ago
  Even today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
- rapnie 5y ago
  Or newly launched https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
riffic 5y ago
technobabble. a better term awaits.
- TheRealPomax 5y ago
  No it doesn't, the tech crowd settled on fediverse, make your peace and move on. It's might be dumb sounding term, but then so was "electronic mail" or "wiki".
  - busterarm 5y ago
    It strikes me as weird seeing the tech crowd choose which feudal lords/tribes they belong to, because that's all the fediverse is ultimately. I'll chalk it up to poor understanding of social power structures.
    - klabb3 5y ago
      Despite your framing, I'm actually curious about your criticisms. To me, a federated world is strictly better than the increasingly centralized world we find ourselves in. Are you suggesting anything less than fully decentralized is not worth the effort?
      - busterarm 5y ago
        I'm being fairly literal when I say that federated social networking is feudalism. That's not a better/worse value judgment -- just pointing out that some folks make the mistake of believing otherwise. As far as value judgments go though, I've long been saying that the current model for the internet is crushing us; that collectively as a society we should get together and abolish the use and creation of social networking sites (the same way qualuudes don't exist today); and that "skin in the game" should be required for online services -- no more "free" stuff where the product is actually the user. I will gladly pay for an email account that isn't mining my data, or a search engine that's actually useful, etc.
        5y ago

It refers to the domains federating via the ActivityPub protocol. Software or deployments of software able to talk to each other via ActivityPub are referred to as the Fediverse.

miduil 5y ago

Just to quote Wikipedia as it reflects what fediverse means quite well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse > The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. Usually they talk about ActivityPub, as a growing number of services are based on this (or similar).

boardwaalk 5y ago
I honestly thought it had something to do with a fetish community up until now. Which I suppose it not entirely wrong when considering some of the stuff on Mastodon. It's still a bad name though.
- zksmk 5y ago
  I was honestly confused for a second why would you think the name had anything to do with a fetish (minus some mastodon content) until I realized you saw it as fe-diverse and not fedi-verse. I never saw it that way because I pronounce the "i" in it as "ee", not as "ay". I wonder what's more common now. Is this another gif/jif situation?
- mariusor 5y ago
  Apologies for the negativity, I'm feeling excessively bitchy at the moment, but how about you improve your reading comprehension instead of having bad takes at other people's naming efforts?
- klabb3 5y ago
  I concur. My first thought was it was some federal government "fellow kids" effort. It's a shame because I'm really, really excited about a Renaissance of the federated web.
dreyfan 5y ago
Even today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
rapnie 5y ago
Or newly launched https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

riffic 5y ago

technobabble. a better term awaits.

TheRealPomax 5y ago
No it doesn't, the tech crowd settled on fediverse, make your peace and move on. It's might be dumb sounding term, but then so was "electronic mail" or "wiki".
- busterarm 5y ago
  It strikes me as weird seeing the tech crowd choose which feudal lords/tribes they belong to, because that's all the fediverse is ultimately. I'll chalk it up to poor understanding of social power structures.
  - klabb3 5y ago
    Despite your framing, I'm actually curious about your criticisms. To me, a federated world is strictly better than the increasingly centralized world we find ourselves in. Are you suggesting anything less than fully decentralized is not worth the effort?
    - busterarm 5y ago
      I'm being fairly literal when I say that federated social networking is feudalism. That's not a better/worse value judgment -- just pointing out that some folks make the mistake of believing otherwise. As far as value judgments go though, I've long been saying that the current model for the internet is crushing us; that collectively as a society we should get together and abolish the use and creation of social networking sites (the same way qualuudes don't exist today); and that "skin in the game" should be required for online services -- no more "free" stuff where the product is actually the user. I will gladly pay for an email account that isn't mining my data, or a search engine that's actually useful, etc.
      - 5y ago