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Is there a better term to describe Lemmy + Piefed + Mbin + Mastodon + whatever else is connected to them? I don’t think it’s the full Fediverse since I don’t see Threads users, for example. I could just be confused. In any case, since the .ml admins are the Lemmy devs, that experience will only change so much for those users, so it might be better to use a different term to draw users and instances away from that software and onto alternatives.
I've switched to the neutral term "Threadiverse" as that seems applicable to all "Reddit style forums and link aggregators" for most things
I use Lemmy-verse here because the next biggest, PieFed, already has the entire Triad as part of their default blocks in the new instance setup flow (which btw Tankies hate PieFed and have declared it to be "anti-communist software trying to push out Lemmy" lmao)
Why not fediverse? I'd argue that Threadiverse is far from a neutral term; it implicitly ascribes ownership of all these spaces to Meta.
The term "Thrediverse" got coined before Meta wanted to try their hand at EEE with the Fediverse iirc
Also "Fediverse" is already taken to mean the overarching umbrella for any software that uses the ActivityPub protocol, everything from Loops to Masto to Friendica to PieFed
That's fair. I still don't like it—I think lots of people will assume it's called that because of Threads—but I don't have any better ideas. ¯\(ツ)/¯
isnt THREADS controlled by META, aka facebook, instagram. they are more likely to push right wing content than not.
Threads is antithetical to everything the fediverse stands for, so you can still use the term because it doesn't get to claim the term.
Minor detail that isn't relevant to the topic, kbin doesn't work anymore but Mbin exists as a branch thanks to kbin being open sourced.
Thanks, I’ve corrected my comment. I can’t keep up with all of this stuff and the back end side of things gets lost on me
Then you've got my instance that's running mbin but still calls itself kbin.earth. Go figure.