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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The nerdiverse

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

/thread

Issue closed as resolved.

I'm using this from now on. Thanks.

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

The good internet = TGI

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

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

Thank Graphics Interchange Format?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

lemmy. come at me kbinners

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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

People’s Front of Judea vibes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (2 children)

Fuck facebook for stealing the name metaverse BTW.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

PiembimmyBB

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

Fedi... Been doing it and it works

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sounds like FBI is knocking

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Federated Boards of Internet

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month 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] 6 points 1 month ago

Soon to be "digg alternative"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

idk, fediverse seems fine to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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] 8 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

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