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tal@lemmy.today 8 months agoSo, 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.
I kinda dislike the word as well. Makes it seem like it's sort of a separate and special side of the Fediverse, when it isn't. It's just as interconnected and interoperable with other Fediverse software like Mastodon (microblogging) or Friendica (macroblogging) the same way as others are. In fact, here I am, replying to you from Friendica.
Imo people could just call them as they are: bulletin boards. Or just something involving groups, idk (because that's what they are, mostly).
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 8 months ago
I'm against it sounding like "Threads" i.e. as though it's something Meta owns and controls. For all I know your use came first and the thing I hate is Meta appropriating it, though.