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Can you imagine, years ago how the internet was before? We know Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Youtube. We knew blogger, Tumblr, Skyrock... and long before, it was the forum era as phpBB..and mail-lists.

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I used to say "Welcome to Lemmy" to new joiners, but nowadays quite a few of them join Piefed instance, having a generic term is easier

You can't follow Mastodon users from Lemmy or Piefed, using "Fedivers" seems too generic

Previous post on the same topic: https://lemmy.zip/post/33451610

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[โ€“] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get that. It's like every political conspiracy is a "-gate". But its a useful shorthand, and thats what the term needs.

Every time I explain it to someone, I roll my eyes a little at those terms, but thats what it's called... It sounds so marketing. Trying to tell someone "join the Fediverse" feels like selling a cult, a little, lol

I may ask my wife if she'll let me set up something for her to scroll other than TikTok, though. She's not the type to dive into new stuff like this without good reason, but if I just go "here's your app, all set up with stuff you'll generally enjoy!" maybe it'll drag her off that godawful site.

[โ€“] julian@activitypub.space 4 points 1 day ago

Sure, although those terms are buzzwords only, not marketing speak. Like blogiverse, definitely not marketing.

The marketing term the Social Web Foundation wants to put forward is "Open Social Web", but that encompasses more than the threaded softwares (includes Mastodon, Peertube, etc.)