On a more serious note (compared to my previous comments), I don’t think this is a good idea. While it has the best of intentions, it only leads to further fragmention and confusion.
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.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.
Yeah, pointing people to individual instances seems to be the most effective way of getting them to try out whatever we call this place. They can learn how it works later.
if I say “nerd social media” my gf know exactly what I’m talking about
/thread
Issue closed as resolved.
I’m using this from now on. Thanks.
Nerdscape it is
Nerdland!
I like this one.
The nerdiverse
Does anybody has a better name other than “fediverse”? I find it pretty terrible due to my native language.
What does it mean in your native language?
The good internet
The Classic internet
The good internet = TGI
TGIF = Thank
godit’s federatedThank Graphics Interchange Format?
Jraphics*
Eternal August
Referring to 2023 August, when Reddit shut down their free API?
The Little Internets That Could
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
???
Fediverse’s Fractious Forums
Fediverse Facetious Friends
Thready
McThreadface
Amazing
lemmy. come at me kbinners
Beware the Piefed army
TheVerse
Managed by @TheDude@sh.itjust.works
Drop the “The”
Ugh, I feel dirty referencing Facebook. I am sorry.
“The United Link Aggregation Alliance of the Threaded Fediverse, which includes Lemmy, PieFed, kbin, and its fork mbin”
People’s Front of Judea vibes
Take that back, it’s clearly giving Judean People’s Front.
TULAATF-LPKM…
Or Tula.
Or Tula.
Hold up, this is actually good. My mediocre joke actually spawned something decent, wtf!?
You still have the issue of needing to say what the acronym is for when people ask. There’s a good reason why most brands aren’t an acronym.
Communwealth, alliance of communities
Sounds to british, confederation?
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-tangent
I’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.
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.
I see where you come from, but it’s still a platform, a network. It’s way more connected that WordPress.
Piefed, Mbin and Lemmy have back and frontends, it’s not like you’re connecting directly to the instance using API calls
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.
Fuck facebook for stealing the name metaverse BTW.
Was it from Snow Crash?
Yess!
That author is a smart dude. He really covers a huge range of stuff in his books
We went with “forum style” fediverse platform
Nice guide!
Forumverse
Since a lot of the discourse is around getting back to forums and the vibe of that era, this feels pretty apt.
Except there is no fedi-forum? Or what am I missing?
There’s Nodebb.
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…
Flinn Jimmigan
That’s it, we have our new name
Wait, was that the nut bill guy or eye doctor to the costume designer to the stars?
