We are stuck with “Threadiverse” as the least worst alternative for a word that means the subset of the Fediverse that is not microblogging and instead of that user-centric sharing offers topic-based, threaded, forum-style conversations.
Thankfully, it predates that horrid experiment in yet another failure, and also most people choose it (over e.g. “Forumverse”), including several high-profile ones such as the creators of Mbin and nodeBB and our beloved Ada that have used it for many years and now do not want to switch.
But mainly it seems for lack of anything better to call it? “The Verse” has a nice ring to it, but lacks specificity. “Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin + nodeBB + maybe flarum or is Sublinks now dead also like Kbin, but not Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Loops, etc.” is way too long and keeps changing, as too does the method of access, through Voyager, Thunder, Summit, Blorp, Interstellar, etc. as all those work with at least two instance software types.
I like threadiverse better. Why should we change just because Meta decided to stole our vocabulary? They also called whatever function within there app “Loop” just when the promesse of a fedi-alternative to TikTok was started to make noise within our small groups.
But there was only 11 votes total (this was prior to the absolute explosion of PieFed users). Rimu also suggested Foriverse or The Federation or The Federated Platforms that actually Federate Properly or FPFP for short. And Snoopy liked Topicverse.
Threadiverse (34); including extremely strong support from creators of Mbin, NodeBB, and elsewhere I’ve seen Ada; does not include additional upvotes to other comments also saying to use Threadiverse, e.g. another one below that with 18, or another with 12
Forumverse (29); also other support in comments below that e.g. one with 13
the negative answer that anything containing “-verse” is automatically bad (25)
“A quorum of forums.” (14)
“The linked linkers, because we’re link aggregators that link together.” (8)
The Verse (or Le Verse, 8)
Lemmyverse (or Threadiverse, 8)
Topicverse (7); plus others with smaller vote counts e.g. one with 3
#Threadiville (6)
cross-faggregatorverse (6)
apparently Fediverse in 2008 was simply called #Identiverse, prior to ActivityPub (5); seconding the hatred towards anything with “-verse”
aggriverse (though was this supposed to be “aggreverse”? anyway, 5)
yes, even back in that poll irelephant suggested “boardnet”! (5 upvotes) also “forumnet”
Lembipie (5)
Lemmyville (4)
gnu-verse (4)
bulletinfedi (4)
“Fedivotes” or “Votiverse” (4)
The Linux hangout (4)
open social web (2)
Lempiebin (3)
Mycelium (2)
Censorverse (hehe, 3-6=-3)
So Threadiverse won by an absolute landslide, with AT LEAST +17% more votes than the next runner-up, Forumverse.
Personally I like irelephant’s suggestion of “forumnet” better than boardnet. But the main obstacle is the hard-liners who do not want to budge from Threadiverse. Perhaps they might if something were clearly better and started to catch on?
Fediverse. Threads is only that guy that goes to a party because there’s free food and drink.
We are stuck with “Threadiverse” as the least worst alternative for a word that means the subset of the Fediverse that is not microblogging and instead of that user-centric sharing offers topic-based, threaded, forum-style conversations.
Thankfully, it predates that horrid experiment in yet another failure, and also most people choose it (over e.g. “Forumverse”), including several high-profile ones such as the creators of Mbin and nodeBB and our beloved Ada that have used it for many years and now do not want to switch.
But mainly it seems for lack of anything better to call it? “The Verse” has a nice ring to it, but lacks specificity. “Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin + nodeBB + maybe flarum or is Sublinks now dead also like Kbin, but not Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Loops, etc.” is way too long and keeps changing, as too does the method of access, through Voyager, Thunder, Summit, Blorp, Interstellar, etc. as all those work with at least two instance software types.
I’ve seen @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com use “Boardnet” the other day, maybe it can be an alternative?
I like threadiverse better. Why should we change just because Meta decided to stole our vocabulary? They also called whatever function within there app “Loop” just when the promesse of a fedi-alternative to TikTok was started to make noise within our small groups.
People have offered so many suggestions.
In the PieFed poll, the breakdown was:
But there was only 11 votes total (this was prior to the absolute explosion of PieFed users). Rimu also suggested Foriverse or The Federation or The Federated Platforms that actually Federate Properly or FPFP for short. And Snoopy liked Topicverse.
In the Lemmy version of the poll, in descending order with number of upvotes the suggestions were:
So Threadiverse won by an absolute landslide, with AT LEAST +17% more votes than the next runner-up, Forumverse.
Personally I like irelephant’s suggestion of “forumnet” better than boardnet. But the main obstacle is the hard-liners who do not want to budge from Threadiverse. Perhaps they might if something were clearly better and started to catch on?
Thank you for the numbers!