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

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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 ๐Ÿ˜ฌ 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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lemme tell you about Lemmy, the community of loquacious learning