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Just to quote Wikipedia as it reflects what fediverse means quite well.

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).




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.


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?


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?


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.



Even today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.




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