It gets tiring to write Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin to call our part of the Fediverse, is Threadiverse now the accepted term?

[sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social]

If we don’t use the term who else gonna do?

[otter@lemmy.ca]

The only concern I’ve seen with the name is that Facebook named their thing “Threads”, and so it might be confusing for people familiar with that.

I still use the term

[ozoned@piefed.social]

Mad with freedom is the new closed garden oppression! All of the cool kids are doing it!

[lazycog@sopuli.xyz]

Ahhh that was the problem! Okay I kinda understand. But I think we can refuse to let that asshole company steal words like Meta, Face & Book, Threads, etc. and act as if that was their invention.

But yeah I just kept using threadiverse because I feel like everyone here understands exactly what it is and others use it too. If people wouldn’t I wouldn’t use it I guess

Edit: gonna start shortening that to TV so I can just tell everyone “saw that on TV”

[snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr]

I prefer forumverse. Or more inventive : Verse

On !fediverse@piefed.social i created flair to categorize :

• forum software : threadiverse
• media software as pixelfed, peertube, vernissage : mediaverse
• blog : fediblog
  …

But i think it is confusing and do not help a lot 🥹

[ladybutterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone]

I still say lemmy. Cos I’m lazy and don’t like change

[recursive_recursion@piefed.ca]

I use Fediverse as threads is tied to meta

[a_union_of_kobolds@lemmy.world]

I get that. It’s like every political conspiracy is a “-gate”. But its a useful shorthand, and thats what the term needs.

Every time I explain it to someone, I roll my eyes a little at those terms, but thats what it’s called… It sounds so marketing. Trying to tell someone “join the Fediverse” feels like selling a cult, a little, lol

I may ask my wife if she’ll let me set up something for her to scroll other than TikTok, though. She’s not the type to dive into new stuff like this without good reason, but if I just go “here’s your app, all set up with stuff you’ll generally enjoy!” maybe it’ll drag her off that godawful site.

[julian@activitypub.space]

Sure, although those terms are buzzwords only, not marketing speak. Like blogiverse, definitely not marketing.

The marketing term the Social Web Foundation wants to put forward is “Open Social Web”, but that encompasses more than the threaded softwares (includes Mastodon, Peertube, etc.)

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

Gemini is both the Google AI and the network protocol, it seems clear which one you’re referring to depending on context

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

Gemini is both the Google AI and the network protocol, it seems clear which one you’re referring to depending on context

[flamekebab@piefed.social]

Arguably the context is very similar - it makes it seem like Threads is part of the “Threadiverse”. AFAIK it’s not? The fact that I don’t know is rather telling.

[tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

To us maybe, as we already know what the fediverse is. To newcomers and people who haven’t really heard of it yet, it sounds like Threads and its associated software.

I’ve been on here for about two years, and I’m pretty sure that you were here before me. This stuff is part of our everyday language, whereas most people haven’t heard of Lemmy, Piefed, or Mbin. They’ve all seen the ads for Threads though

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

We had some issues with the term “Threadiverse” when Meta’s Threads was on the rise and in public discourse. And people started confusing this with what Mark Zuckerberg does. But I think that toned down substantially. I think Threadiverse is a good term, we might as well try again and see if the confusion is still there. And I mean it’s a super niche term anyways to talk about a certain corner of a niche itself. So I guess it’s often embedded in a context and that’d help as well. I’d go for it. And the threads are the identifying mark of this place, so it fits.

[veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just call it Fediverse.

Fediverse can be part. Fediverse can be all. Fediverse is the all that federates with the bit. Fediverse ought. Fediverse will be. It’s even on Poob. Poob will federate it for you. Poob will federate it for you.

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

It doesn’t make sense to tell someone “Welcome to the Fediverse” when they join Piefed or Lemmy as they can’t follow Mastodon or Sharkey users

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

!piefed_meta@piefed.social has nothing to do with the Meta company

[flamekebab@piefed.social]

I, uh, don’t know what you’re trying to say. I was talking about support for the ActivityPub protocol.

[bonktheannoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Except that, apparently you can? A recent post I made on Lemmy had replies from Mastodon accounts afaict

[revan343@lemmy.ca]

Interacting with Lemmy threads from Mastodon is easy, the inverse not so much