What does "the Fediverse" mean?
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It depends on context. A generic category word, similar to web and internet, when referring to the technology side. An online social networking environment for people when referring to the socio-cultural side.
@smallcircles that's interesting!
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
The first 3 create the 4th.
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan it's a network with principles.
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan The Fediverse is a network built and occupied by a group of people who share some principles and aspects of culture.
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan So sad I can only pick one
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@evan So sad I can only pick one
@buage life is about hard choices
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan All of the above?
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan I'd also call it culture of networking, independent, flexible, dynamic, diverse and creative
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan@cosocial.ca the Fediverse, in abstract, means pretty much all of these things, but when people are referring to a concrete "the Fediverse", they first and foremost mean this network characterized by running on ActivityPub on the open, public internet (as opposed to smaller bubbles running over Tor and such), which happens to also uniquely specify a group of people (who use this network), a set of principles about moderation and federation and accessibility, and to a lesser extent, a culture, but the culture is much more subjective and more of a gradient across the network. the group of people are often more precisely referred to as "fedizens" and the principles might be called something like "fediquette". but "the Fediverse" refers to the network as a whole, containing all of these elements.
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@evan@cosocial.ca the Fediverse, in abstract, means pretty much all of these things, but when people are referring to a concrete "the Fediverse", they first and foremost mean this network characterized by running on ActivityPub on the open, public internet (as opposed to smaller bubbles running over Tor and such), which happens to also uniquely specify a group of people (who use this network), a set of principles about moderation and federation and accessibility, and to a lesser extent, a culture, but the culture is much more subjective and more of a gradient across the network. the group of people are often more precisely referred to as "fedizens" and the principles might be called something like "fediquette". but "the Fediverse" refers to the network as a whole, containing all of these elements.
@sodiboo so, what did you choose?
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@evan All of the above?
@dermoth no
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@sodiboo so, what did you choose?
@evan@cosocial.ca network, of course! but only after acknowledging that those other things can also definitely be described as the Fediverse
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan I picked "A group of people" but I think it's more like "A collection of groups of people"
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan the correct answer is "yes"
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan To me, "None of the above". The "Fedi" part being Federation which is just a collection of distinct entities which retain their distinctness, and "verse" being shore for Universe which is the set of all entities. This thing is a Federation of computer nodes, out of the set of all computer nodes on the Internet, sharing a common communication protocol and interaction rules and controls.
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This is single choice for a reason. Yes, it's hard to choose.
@evan reposted with alt-poll
*runs*
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan Personally I think "the Fediverse" is actually a network of a group of people following a set of principles to establish a culture.
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan @Em0nM4stodon Yes.
Yet another one of your darn polls where I can't select any of the answers because none of them are mutually exclusive of the others to me.
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@evan@cosocial.ca the Fediverse, in abstract, means pretty much all of these things, but when people are referring to a concrete "the Fediverse", they first and foremost mean this network characterized by running on ActivityPub on the open, public internet (as opposed to smaller bubbles running over Tor and such), which happens to also uniquely specify a group of people (who use this network), a set of principles about moderation and federation and accessibility, and to a lesser extent, a culture, but the culture is much more subjective and more of a gradient across the network. the group of people are often more precisely referred to as "fedizens" and the principles might be called something like "fediquette". but "the Fediverse" refers to the network as a whole, containing all of these elements.
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What does "the Fediverse" mean?
@evan@cosocial.ca I joined the Fediverse and started an instance, because I loved the idea of independence. I really hope it's not a culture or a set of principles, because that would probably heavily limit the amount and types of people I can interact with. Bubbles are comfortable, but comfort zones don't help us grow as people.
