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Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?

Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? πŸ’‘

Anyway, the start to a listing:

  1. Threadiverse
  2. Forumverse
  3. (The) Verse
  4. Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
  5. Something else?

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Forumverse makes the most sense but it really doesn’t roll of the tounge.

Hence I prefer Lemmyverse or Threadiverse.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

Thank you for your contribution:-).

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Threadiverse kinda captures it, but it also calls association with Threads (by Meta), like if it's the parent of it, while in fact it's not even part of it.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

That's unfortunate, because some of us were using that term before Threads existed.

[–] macfranc@poliversity.it 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@OpenStars In the past we had gotten into the habit of calling the set of thread-based environments #threadverse, but the advent of the terrible Meta service has polluted this denomination.

Personally I would use the expression #topicverse

@fediverse

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 5 days ago

Topicverse sounds kinda nice.

To be fair, people were using Threadiverse before Meta revealed that they were working on their Threads. And now they do not want to switch?

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gonna be the odd one out here and say that all of these names are kinda stupid, but Lemmyverse is probably the best of the bunch.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 5 days ago

The word itself sounds nice, but is the least inclusive.

That's like saying that all of these conversations that we all have are on Lemmy.World? Sure, it's between 50 and 80% true (users and the most active communities, respectively, including this one we are in now), but it misses a ton of nuance and detail there.

PieFed, Mbin, and now nodebb, with others on the way (flarum, perhaps Sublinks) also exist.

So why call this all "Lemmy", when that's only a part - granted, by far the majority portion - of the whole?

[–] youronlyone@fedia.io 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

When the first Reddit migration happened, the migrants called it #Threadiverse and has always been that way. Although some tried to change it (Threads was not around yet, or public, IIRC), it didn't work, the migrants prefer Threadiverse so it stuck.

Changing names in the Fediverse is not easy since it has grown humongous already. Back in 2008 it was simply called #Identiverse. Then a few years later it morphed into the #Fediverse (this was before ActivityPub, yes, the Fediverse is years older than ActivityPub).

Back in 2021/2022, we tried to change the name "Fediverse" because Twitter migrants and the Press/Media were whining too much about it. Even though we reached a consensus, the we were far too small compared to the number of new people.

The people who kept on complaining about the name "Fediverse", when they were asked to participate in the disucssion and polls, they did not. When they were presented with the new name, they either ignored us or started whining again. 🀷🏽

Anyway, if there's a huge population involved, it's not going to be easy.

Now, I'm not discouraging you, rather, I shared our experience in the hopes that you'll find a better way. Because personally, I'm not so fond of "Threadiverse", haha.

If you use, for example, the lemmyBB interface, it's no longer "threadi", it's a forum. 😝 (I know, lame reason.)

Oh! One thing that came out of trying to rename the Fediverse, people don't want "-verse" anywhere because it's overused. Multiverse. Metaverse. Fediverse. Threadiverse. Benverse. Omniverse. Panverse. Whoverse. Trekverse.

[–] youronlyone@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

Hmm… I like the -ville suggestion. #Threadiville perhaps?

  • The #Fediverse is the "universe".
    • The -ville is the "local group".
      • The various software are the "galaxies".
        • The instances are the "planets".

So:

  • Fediverse
    • Threadiville local group
      • Mbin galaxy
        • Fedia IO planet
      • Kbin galaxy
        • Kbin social planet
      • Nodebb galaxy
      • Lemmy galaxy
        • Lemmy World planet
    • Microville local group
      • Mastoforks galaxy
      • Pleroma galaxy
    • Writingville local group
      • Plume galaxy
      • WriteFreely galaxy
      • Ghost galaxy
    • Faceville local group
      • Friendica galaxy
      • -key forks galaxy
    • CMSville local group
      • Hubzilla galaxy
      • Drupal galaxy
      • Wordpress galaxy

😁

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 6 days ago

Tagging @Snoopy@piefed.social.

This is a great summary of the history of the topic, thank you!:-)

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What was the new name? I've heard open social web.

[–] youronlyone@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

It started as a suggestion, then we compiled it and made phases of polls. (The instance clised shop, unfortunately.)

Based on those, the most that got the votes was the suggestion "Mycelium". It was inspired by Star Trek: Discovery and the real-world mycelium.

The second one, I can't remember but it was also related to nature's fungi or plants.

The list of suggestions and votes were based on who participated. And at the time it was done, it was the Twitter Migration, and people were complaining loudly about the name "Fediverse". And yet, those who participated were mostly pre-Migration people (who generally didn't have a strong issue with "Fediverse"). πŸ˜„

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago

Might be too obvious:-).

Alternatively, The Linux hangout.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bc a network of forum boards?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah. I think it has a good ring to it. Maybe forumnet.

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