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

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

I used to say “Welcome to Lemmy” to new joiners, but nowadays quite a few of them join Piefed instance, having a generic term is easier

You can’t follow Mastodon users from Lemmy or Piefed, using “Fedivers” seems too generic

Previous post on the same topic: https://lemmy.zip/post/33451610

[purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone]

Personally, I use it. In my corner of Fedi, people do use it. At the end of the day, language is shaped by the people who use it. So yeah, let’s keep using it.

[blaze@lemmy.zip]

Sounds good, thank you for your comment

[db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Ye I use threadiverse myself.

[lazycog@sopuli.xyz]

Yup I personally always use threadiverse and love to use threadiverse.link instead of lemmyverse.link

Maybe I missed something but never saw a problem with that name.

Edit: wanted to add that voyager has also started to use threadiverse.link as a share option (i believe lemsha.re as well but that service shut down).

[ozoned@piefed.social]

Threadiverse is fine with me. Fediverse in general, but Threadiverse is more specific imo. We’re early on the Fedi, we get to make the rules! Square is blue! Up is left and right is forward. MUAHAHAHAHA!

[julian@activitypub.space]

Threadiverse ftw

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

Personally I hate “verse” lingo.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

I just say lemmy for all that zone, but happy to switch. Threadi huh. Bit awkward but I’m sure we’ll get used to it.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

They’ve gone mad with freedom!

[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