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As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket (www.freezenet.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by demvoter@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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The battle between Reddit and its CEO continues. With that battle continuing on, ActivityPubs user count continues to soar.

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[–] Clairvoidance@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I feel like I'm going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.
Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")
I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like "ohh, I love that band"
I feel like we're in a naming crisis haha

[–] GizmoLion@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Amazon? You mean the rainforest?
Yahoo? Like a crazy person? Did you misspell the drink?
Sorry, you just tweeted? You mean like a bird?
Tumblr? Oh, facebook for acrobats, right?

Most names sound weird or confusing until you're familiar with it. A googol is a number, but nobody bats an eye when you tell people to "google" something.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")

It's short for federated universe... I like the term actually, but hey, we don't get to choose the name as far as I know.

I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like "ohh, I love that band"

Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂... but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I'd get what you're trying to say... or at least ask "not the band, right", lol 😂.

I feel like we're in a naming crisis haha

Naaah... how do you think Linux users felt when they started using it and found command names like cat, grep, tar 😂.

[–] Clairvoidance@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's short for federated universe.

yeah I mean, we know that.

Yeah, also love the band to be honest 😂... but sure, if it was said in context of a social media networks convesation, I'd get what you're trying to say... or at least ask "not the band, right", lol 😂.

~~it was deadass on /r/technology~~ my bad /r/worldnews when people were talking about twitter alternatives
I don't even know why I got so many upvotes considering nobody ever corrected them

[–] T156@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Fediverse also makes it sound like some weird Metaverse thing, which isn't ideal either.

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