I don’t think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on “Lemmy” or “kbin” is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer.
We should be referring to it as…
- I saw it on the fediverse.
- Hey fediverse users …
- A thread on the fediverse…
New terms may emerge but referring to the platform seems weird, almost ignorant.
edit: A better example is email. You wouldn’t assume everyone is on Hotmail because that is the email provider you use. You say I’m sendingan eamail, not I’m sending a Hotmail.
While you’re correct, it’s just a clunky term. I think some other way to refer to the whole thing will probably come along soon, and in a few years, people will regard saying fediverse the same way we look back on people talking about “surfing the information superhighway” or whatever.
Radical dude
Get federated!!!
I would love it if we just went all early 1990s and started saying “hello Internet!” or something beautifully corny like that.
In the end activitypub is a standard recognized by the W3C, so it would be kind of accurate.
hello, fediverse!
In my best AOL voice: You’ve got fedi! 🤣🤣🤣
Definitely a clunky term. It will be interesting to see what the feds come up with. Lets see if that catches on :-D
Seriously, I’m sure something good will emerge.
I’m not convinced that something good will emerge.
Keep in mind we still use “internet”.
“Internet” is closer to a lot of existing English words than “fediverse,” though. “Fediverse” might get familiar over time, and it might make more sense to non-English-speakers, but I think it’s a more exotic construction than “internet.”
I mean, threadiverse works pretty well to describe this area specifically
Dang I totally forgot all about that term. Been awhile. Well it eventually reduced to “surfing the net”.
The thing about the internet, is it was the thing to make it only one net. Previously there were weird systems like bitnet, VMSnet, where you had to juggle email address encoding standards to get balkanized college campus networks to talk back and forth to each other.
“The web” became the subset of the net, that worked with web browsers. Only one thing.
Was there a “The Facebook” period? Or was that just a movie name?
So then we passed through a period of brands. Reddit is a brand. It is not altogether surprising that people would refer to the fediverse in terms of brands. Lemmy, kbin, beehaw, whatever.
Email and the web had/have specific protocols associated with them. The fediverse has multiple protocols. We’re using ActivityPub, which seems to have won as a standard. It isn’t exactly catchy or smooth flowing off the tongue.
Ok, if we try to brain crunch all these previous trends, here’s what it’s going to be called, if it hasn’t been already:
THE VERSE
The difference between the fediverse and the universe will be forgotten. Linguistically, people will not keep up with that detail. Only old timers / early adopters will notice that linguistic change.
Possibly, ‘verse’ will come to be seen as short for multiverse.
I’ve been missing this grandiose caliber of post since leaving Reddit, truly bravo.
- Posted to Lemmy
Go back to lemmy…this kbin country!!!
You didn’t actually. You posted to Kbin. Because this thread is on Kbin, even if you’re reading it on Lemmy. Which is kind of OP’s point.
I did, actually. My instance has a saved copy of the post, I replied to it there, it forwarded the information to Kbin.
OPs point is dumb. Lemmy and Kbin are separate platforms that happen to be interoperable because of the backend protocol they’ve decided to use (which Kbin added relatively recently in the grand scheme). The Fediverse is made up of many of these platforms that are doing the same thing. There is nothing wrong with referring to the platform one is using.
Well said. If you want to mean all the things connected to ActivityPub, you say Fediverse. If it’s restricted to lemmy, it’s fine to use lemmy. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. OP saying it borders on ignorance may have to think about it.
I use lemmy. I don’t really care for nor use other Fediverse services like Mastodon.
Wouldn’t every viewed copy anywhere then be a saved copy of the original post? Does that distinction even mean anything when it’s still posting specifically to the original instance?
If I reply in a Lemmy.world thread, I’m still posting on Lemmy.world even if I’m viewing from Kbin.social.
As a comparative example to old and dying social media, it would be like finding a link to a celebrity’s Twitter comment on Reddit and you saying you saw the person saying that on Reddit, which would be extremely misleading to anyone listening, thinking that the celebrity had posted it on Reddit.
It’s not posting comments specifically to the original instance. If the instances defederate I can continue to post comments, and people on my instance can see and interact with them.
Once somebody subscribes to a community (or magazine if you’re on the rifle site), ActivityPub acts like dynamic, synchronizing RSS. Everybody interacts with local data, an instance isn’t simply acting as a proxy when interacting with a different instance.
No, you’re posting on kbin.social. You’re never ever doing anything directly on a remote site. You view on k-so, you vote on k-so, you post on k-soc, and you comment on k-soc. Your actions are then, at some later point (which may be microseconds, or it may be hours, depending on traffic levels on both k-soc and the remote website), relayed to the remote website so the two copies of the community can be synchronised.
Personally I think “fediverse” is a stupid fucking name. I’m tired of “-verses”. I’ll keep saying kbin, thanks.
No 😠 you are not allowed! This is FeDiVeRsE!
/s
Seriously tho, OP is dumb as hell lol
🙄 pedantic much
Sticking to true Reddit fashion lol
If I was browsing Reddit and saw an interesting video, I might tell someone “I saw an interesting video on Reddit the other day” even if the video itself was hosted on YouTube. The technical detail of exactly where and how the video is hosted is not relevant to the conversation. The listener wants to know how I found it, not where it is stored.
The same is true for posts on the fediverse. The various instances are the websites that we browse. The technical detail of how they share content and how it can be accessed from various different routes just isn’t important most of the time. If you’re a Lemmy user, you’re reading the posts on Lemmy and there is nothing wrong with talking about it that way.
If I tell someone I bought a game on Steam or borrowed a book from the library, the fact that they are also available elsewhere doesn’t matter. If I tell someone I read something on kbin, does it matter that the same post also exists on different websites? 99% of the time, the answer is ‘no’.
New terms may emerge but referring to the platform seems weird, almost ignorant.
I agree, but you’ve got it upsidedown. The fediverse is the platform that the instances operate on, not vice-versa.
Until they try to find it on Reddit and they cry. Cry!
I’m a bit creeped out by her saying it over and over again. It’s like she got her time dialer too soon.
So can I log into a lemmy app with my kbin details ? Or do I have to sign up on lemmy ?
Who gives a fuckidi fuck?
Depends if you’re referring to where it was, or whereby you saw it. “I saw it on lemmy,” could simply mean - “I was browsing the fediverse via Lemmy, whence I happened upon the content in question. Being aware of your proclivities and tastes, I reasoned you mightst enjoy it as well, and so without delay or further contemplation on the matter, I forwarded posthaste to you this here internet link, which shall take you directly to the content of which I speak, though perhaps not by way of the Lemmy route of which I hath spake.”
Referring to a post on “Lemmy” or “kbin” is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer.
That’s not how language works. Language evolves naturally and in this scenario people would instantly know that the user had seen something on a fediverse platform without having to use another awful ‘-verse’ word.
Likewise you can’t police how people use language. People use whatever makes understanding for both sides easiest on both sides
If someone logs into a website called Kbin and sees something interesting, it’s fair to say ‘I saw something interesting on Kbin’ without having to give unnecessary explanations about what the fediverse is.
And once again, no one likes the word fediverse…
Tell my old English teacher you can’t police the way people use language…
Mine as well, yet she’d then recite the first few verses of The Canterbury Tales in Old-English; pretty much proving that you can’t police the way people use language.
And you can’t language the way people use police either!
fediverse is too close to metaverse imo and thus it sounds dumb
I personally like to call it “Fedi”. I was reading a post / thread on Fedi and it said…
If someone asked where exactly it was I would mention the platform.
And in my opinion, everyone should be mentioning the name of the platform they are on. Because when you mention what software or server you used, it promotes it to non Fediverse people. And it also tells current Fediverse users about other Fedi platforms that they may like, and didn’t know about.
That’s how I found Misskey, and it’s quite cool.
So many options to explore, and try out interfaces that may work better for you.We are all on the Fediverse, we all should be promoting that in any way we can.
Share, educate and take pride in our diverse community.
I just consistently mention it because it’s a huge topic atm and it’s to everyone’s benefit to clarify. If I’m over here talking about how I’m SO glad I can mute instances willy-nilly as I please but don’t mention I’m doing that from kbin, that’s going to send a lot of frustrated lemmings scrambling through their settings.
Generic is “(the) fedi/fediverse.” But where I’m specifically from may carry connotations in UI or culture for those here, and those not here would maybe prefer a platform name they can actually look up, as has already happened to me once.
I do think the “Blaaah, we got X amount of users and we’re the biggest in the fedi!” posts are borderline odd, because yeah, we’re not going head to head anymore. The tribalism we’ve had drilled into us for decades, we have no need of now and I don’t wanna see any of the platform politics that’s always been in the past. Thankfully, it seems to be stemming from genuine enjoyment instead of elitist gloating, and it keeps itself to a minimum.
Yeah, the tribalism needs to go away and we need to think more along the lines of the “neighborhood” we are in. All the Fedis are our neighbors.
I dunno, the Ferengis are neighbors and they’re damn greedy.
“fediverse” isn’t correct either - it’s too broad. Kbin and Lemmy post to a part of the fediverse - the “threadiverse”. Meanwhile job in can also post to the microblogverse connecting with Mastodon. And there is not one fediverse - ir is both separated by different algorithms for different bits and also within areas some bits federate with others.
If you want a good term for the threadiverse, then Feddit seems like a good catch all name?
Y’all talkin’ on the verse.
I like the name fediverse, but I think it’s too broad. I think we need a collective name for platforms like Lemmy and KBin (which are more like each other than they are like Mastodon).
“forum”. It’s correct. Short for web forum.
The nickname I’ve seen used for kbin and lemmy is the “threadiverse,” which I personally like.
Much too problematic with Meta’s new platform.
Calling it “Threadiverse” is walking right into Meta’s playbook. Zuckerberg would want you to call it exactly that.
You could go all The Orville and call it the Zipperverse.
