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?
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.
Ok, let’s call it the sexyverse.
because it’s a really lame sounding name.
The first time I heard Fediverse I thought it had something to do with Kevin Federline.
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
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 😜)
Open that community and I’ll be the first to follow it.
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.
I don’t talk about the Fediverse a lot, I talk about Lemmy. It’s an okay name.
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.
Lemme tell you about Lemmy, the community of loquacious learning
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Touché…is also the name of a fetish community.
That’s why you join an instance that defederated from the porn in the first place.
Just make an alt account on a nsfw server and you‘re golden.
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?
I speak languages that differentiate between “t” and “d”.
In Portuguese it sounds like “feder”, that means “to stink”
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
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.
They are saying that when they speak the word FeDiverse people hear FeTiverse as in a universe for fetishes.
I have no idea what fetiverse means. Neither do my friends unless they are very polite people.
I just tell people about open source reddit, it’s called Lemmy.
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?
