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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
by 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 agoI 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 agoI 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 agoApologies 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 agoI 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 agoEven today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
- rapnie 5y agoOr newly launched https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page