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tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Cliff and his co-admin Kyle Reddoch are now working on their own alternative index, that doesn’t include this requirement. It’s a massive undertaking, and requires vetting communities asking permission for inclusion, and regularly checking in on community developments. Still, they’re optimistic.
“[We] are making a list on our Wiki of instance that both federate and defederate from Threads,” Kyle writes, “we feel people [should] have the choice themselves and not have someone else choose for them.”
I kind of think that it’d be nice if there were support for various instances claiming that they support various collections of policies, as it’d be an easier way to identify how instances work and choosing one.
Like, right now it involves manually reading through each instance’s sidebar, but if it were published in a standard way, it could be used to filter instances on lemmyverse.net.
And one instance could commit to multiple sets of (compatible) policies, doesn’t need to be just one.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 8 months ago
That's not a fucking thing. Threads doesn't own the Fediverse and they clearly are not welcome on it either.
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
“Threadiverse” isn’t a reference to Meta’s “Threads”.
It’s referring to the lemmy/kbin/similar portion of the Fediverse, the “Reddit-alikes”, as opposed to, say, Mastodon or Funkwhale.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 8 months ago
If that's true, I hate it.
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
So, the problem is that:
Saying “Fediverse” is too broad, like talking about “the Internet” when one is talking about Reddit.
Saying “lemmy” – currently the most-widely-used software package to do a Threadiverse instance – is too narrow, and excludes kbin and some other software packages.
“Reddit-alike” doesn’t seem ideal, as I’d imagine that the Threadiverse will evolve past whatever Reddit has been and already differs in some ways. I’m also not really enthralled in terms of branding the thing in terms of Reddit.
I don’t intrinsically feel that “Threadiverse” has to be the term for that, but I do think that there’s a need for a term for that. It’s the only term I’ve seen used so far for it.
It does rely on punning on “Fediverse” and sounds similar, which I regret a bit – I think that it might be nicer if it sounded more different, so that one couldn’t perhaps mistake one term for the other. But I’m generally okay with it, myself.