this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
-28 points (25.0% liked)

Fediverse

37861 readers
197 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Anytime I mention it to people IRL they look uncomfortable before I explain it's the federated universe of distributed social platforms.

That moment of 😬 is due to the name Fediverse sounding like 'Fetiverse.' These people aren't sex obsessed. Most are tech professionals who were on Fark, SA, Digg...etc.

How do y'all navigate this homonymous quirk?

all 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I’m so pissed right now. I thought I was joining the fetaverse but I can’t even find a single user talking about delicious crumbled cheese made from sheep’s milk

[–] jaredwhite@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I actually make this joke…I say it's not fetaverse like the cheese, but fedi as in federated* 😄 always gets a laugh

* (Although, there's no i in the word federated, so that's odd 😜)

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 10 months ago

AHEM, goat's and sheep's milk 😡

Stick with the pvre cvlt fetaverse principles here!

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months ago

Open that community and I'll be the first to follow it.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

The "very random, as u can see" girl who posted on the "random" board of 4chan https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m is now in her early 30s.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at "fediverse" not because of sex association, but because it's a really lame sounding name.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Ok, let’s call it the sexyverse.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

because it's a really lame sounding name.

The first time I heard Fediverse I thought it had something to do with Kevin Federline.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't talk about the Fediverse a lot, I talk about Lemmy. It's an okay name.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lemme tell you about Lemmy, the community of loquacious learning

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah. I talk about the product directly.

Lemmy. Or Pixelfed. Or Mastodon.

I talk about the activitypub and decentralization.

I'm trying to remove Fediverse from the conversation because that's the word that starts to make people confused.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

If the first thing that came to mind for them was ‘Fetiverse' then I think that's on them.

What are they doing on the internet?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 points 10 months ago

I speak languages that differentiate between "t" and "d".

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 10 months ago

Maybe it's your pronunciation? I'd just make the 'd' a bit softer and put emphasis on the vowels. But then I don't really know, my first language isn't English and though we have the same word for "fetish", it has a lot more harshness to the 't' and especially the 'sh' so I've never seen anyone jump from one to the other when I said it out loud.

[–] justanotheruser4@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

In Portuguese it sounds like "feder", that means "to stink"

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 10 months ago

I just tell people about open source reddit, it's called Lemmy.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

What is the fetiverse? I've never encountered this issue. The main issue is there's not enough activity for people to want to use it when I bring it up to IRL friends

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried really hard to understand this. It isn't working.

I put in my share of the work. I think it just does not make sense.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

They are saying that when they speak the word FeDiverse people hear FeTiverse as in a universe for fetishes.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea what fetiverse means. Neither do my friends unless they are very polite people.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess OP means it sounds like "fetish", but this looks like a retread of the "what if people think the fediverse logo looks like a pentagram?" hypothetical that didn't have any root in reality either.

[–] noobface@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish it was hypothetical. Two slightly awkward conversations prompted this.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 10 months ago

In that case, sorry to break it to you: It's hard to swallow (no pun intended), but sometimes you just have to accept that people of your immediate acquaintance or relation are utterly unkinky.

[–] fu@libranet.de 2 points 10 months ago

@noobface certainly not a problem I've dealt with in 12 years of being on #Fedi. May be your circle of friends. In that case I'd recommend just calling it "ActivityPub" which doesn't really cover all of the 'verse, but its what most people mean when they say fediverse anyway.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We're building a new federated social media universe to distribute it rather than it being centralised in a few single companies like Meta and Reddit. It consists of several different service ideas like Lemmy, Mastodon and PeerTube, over 40 in all. Each of those has hundreds of different instances where little and larger communities share with each other and with other communities and services. We call this Federated Universe the fediverse. Wanna join?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub