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?

  • Blaze (he/him)
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    232 months ago

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

    • @Tablaste@linux.community
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      22 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.