Saying "Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed" is too long, just Lemmy is reductive, "Threadiverse" doesn't really roll off the tongue,we are only a subset of the Fediverse. What would you call us? Horrible names allowed

linkler

I've seen Feddit around to I'm not sure how I feel about it.

-Fediread? And we could distinguish the others aspects of the fediverse servers: -Fediblog : Mastodon, Pleroma, etc. -Fediphoto: Pixelfed -Fedivideo: Peertube

Just call it Lemmy people need a simple name and Lemmy is fun to say
- It's fun until people bring up that the main devs political positions are debatable https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md#whats-going-on-with-the-uyghurs
  And I said debatable because I have no strong opinion on the matter. That would make me a lib for some people, a leftist for others, I don't really care.
  What I've seen is that argument is regularly brought up by detractors of the platform, which is why I always insist on saying that Piefed and Mbin are compatible and managed by other development teams
  
  If someone is putting their manifesto on GitHub you can safely just disregard everything they say as crackpot nonsense tbh
- We're on Lemmy. We are Lamingtons.

!reddit

Lemmy

Social net.
Two words everyone understands. Also the two ideas that make the fediverse what it is.
- That's... really cool actually 😎
  But is it perhaps too generic?
  Also that sounds like a replacement for Fediverse rather than Threadiverse/Forumverse.
  Still, social.net would be a great name for a new Fediverse instance? It almost kinda is already, in discuss.online.:-)

if I say "nerd social media" my gf know exactly what I'm talking about

Thready
- McThreadface
  
  Amazing

The good internet
- The good internet = TGI
  TGIF = Thank ~~god~~ it's federated
  
  Thank Graphics Interchange Format?
- Eternal August
  
  Referring to 2023 August, when Reddit shut down their free API?
- The Classic internet
- The Little Internets That Could

How about 'FediverseLMP', pronounced fediverse+"ehlmp"?

Fuhgeddit

I generally don't. I don't find it to be a useful grouping to reference or discuss.
Try piefed.social
Try Discuss.online
Try beehaw.org
Try programming.dev
I'm always referring to one, never the group.
- I wouldn't point them to Beehaw though, their segregated nature and difficult onboarding process make it less welcoming for newcomers to the Fediverse.
  lemmy.blahaj.zone is a better choice for people who want LGBTQ friendly spaces.
  
  I think this is a great illustration of my point. I like the culture beehaw.org has established more than what lemmy.blahaj.zone has encouraged. And I don't particularly care about "the fediverse". I care about the online communities I engage with.
  Everyone is different and I make my recommendation based on what I think the person I'm making recommendations to would like most.
- Yeah, pointing people to individual instances seems to be the most effective way of getting them to try out whatever we call this place. They can learn how it works later.
  
  Example of confusion some users experience: https://old.reddit.com/r/RejoinEU/comments/1ipff9z/ok_so_what_next_what_can_you_do_to_help_the_cause/me0jdxp/?context=3
- Example of confusion some users experience: https://old.reddit.com/r/RejoinEU/comments/1ipff9z/ok_so_what_next_what_can_you_do_to_help_the_cause/me0jdxp/?context=3

Threadiverse is a terrible name, the most immediate word association is Threads, ostensibly a large corporate competitor, and the most immediate search result is a geeky/nerdy tshirt/merch company.
Better names?
Fuck uh... I dunno.
Lemmyverse
Lemmy and Friends
Reddit Asylum Seekers Club (RASCL?)
The front page of Web 4.0
Fediverse's Fractious Forums
???
- A lot of people from Reddit refuse to come here due to the association with tankies, as evidenced in the name Lemmy.
  Also PieFed has little to do with Lemmy, except being interoperable with it, like K/Mbin. And Sublinks will introduce newer even more complicated terminology as in "the instance formerly using Lemmy, now having switched over to Sublinks":-).
  Anyway we already have both Lemmy and Fediverse, so the purpose of this third name is to represent the not-just-Lemmy portion of the Fediverse. Threadiverse is a horrible name... but the only one people seem willing to use. Forumverse?
  Threads is dead, maybe we should finally just let it go? Oh, and use of Threadiverse predated that existing in any case. It's solidly our term, not theirs... if we want it.
  
  PieFed has little to do with Lemmy, except being interoperable with it,
  Seems like quite a link to be honest
  
  Why would the word lemmy be associated with tankies?
- Fediverse’s Fractious Forums
  Fediverse Facetious Friends

"The United Link Aggregation Alliance of the Threaded Fediverse, which includes Lemmy, PieFed, kbin, and its fork mbin"
- TULAATF-LPKM...
  Or Tula.
  
  Or Tula.
  Hold up, this is actually good. My mediocre joke actually spawned something decent, wtf!?
- People’s Front of Judea vibes
  
  Take that back, it's clearly giving Judean People's Front.
- Communwealth, alliance of communities
  
  Sounds to british, confederation?

lemmy. come at me kbinners
- kbinners probably don’t have a working instance to see our convo
  
  Not true! There is a single server, in Poland, with 73 users on it. 😁
- Beware the Piefed army
  
  What army?
  
  raaarrr

TheVerse
- Managed by @TheDude@sh.itjust.works
- Drop the "The"
  Ugh, I feel dirty referencing Facebook. I am sorry.

I’ve taken a liking to threadiverse, though I think it might confuse some people given Meta’s Threads and Metaverse, people might assume it’s a mix of that.
- Since Meta's Threads died, and anyway usage of the word Threadiverse predated its existence, I finally relented and now use Threadiverse. Or Fediverse. Forumverse kinda sounds cool too, though generally speaking nobody seems to want to use it.
- Fuck facebook for stealing the name metaverse BTW.
  
  they stole metaverse so lets take threads back for the collective and confuse ppl they go looking for threads and wind up here
  
  Was it from Snow Crash?

What to call this stuff...
Jokingly:
webweb, 'cause it's a web of websites.
cross-fora, 'cause they're like cross-posts but entire forums.
newsvents, 'cause a lot of the activity is venting in news post comments. 😉
memecycling centers, 'cause it's a lot of reposts of old memes/shitposts.
Realistically:
Whatever instance/site I'm directing someone to.
- All the pointing to these backends as though they’re platforms like the corporate platforms shows how much they’ve conditioned people into thinking in their terms.
  I see where you come from, but it's still a platform, a network. It's way more connected that WordPress.
  Piefed, Mbin and Lemmy have back and frontends, it's not like you're connecting directly to the instance using API calls
  
  I see where you come from, but it’s still a platform, a network.
  But that network is not Lemmy or kbin or mbin or piefed. That network is activitypub, the platform is activitypub. Those backends are just what you use to connect to the network, but you could use any other implementation (just that there aren't that many right now).

Forumverse
- Since a lot of the discourse is around getting back to forums and the vibe of that era, this feels pretty apt.
  
  Except there is no fedi-forum? Or what am I missing?

forumnet? Boardpub?

On a more serious note (compared to my previous comments), I don't think this is a good idea. While it has the best of intentions, it only leads to further fragmention and confusion.
- I gotta admit Im already fragmented and confused
  
  fwiw, Welcome to the Fediverse! Is there anything in particular that has you kerflumoxed?
- I'm not against a consolidated name that fully encapsulates the ActivityPubiverse, and still think that is important to driving people in. Fediverse is probably sufficient enough for the time being. But user activity begins when users can interact with it, so perhaps introducing instances as 'lemdro.id, a Lemmy platform' or something of that ilk could achieve that. That way, it's not seen as a competing standard, just an implementation of one. Then, as users become more familiar with the ecosystem, the hierarchy and segments could be learnt over time if they choose to do so.
  
  ‘lemdro.id, a Lemmy platform’
  But then you have "feddit.online, a Piefed instance", and people would have no way to know those two work with each other
- I was just thinking about the main criticism we get when we promote Lemmy, which is "why are there so many different URLs, names, platforms? What is Voyager, Photon, Piefed, Lemmy? Feddit.uk, lemmy.ca?"
  So, in the same logic as just saying "go to https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content and see if you like it. If you want an app, the links are on https://vger.app/settings/install", I think it could be interesting to have a global name for everything. We could even try with Photon, to be honest.
  "Go to https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content and see if you like it. If you want an app, the links are on https://phtn.app/mobile (which would redirect to the 2 Voyager links). Example of confusion some users experience: https://old.reddit.com/r/RejoinEU/comments/1ipff9z/ok_so_what_next_what_can_you_do_to_help_the_cause/me0jdxp/?context=3

"Reddit alternative".
- That's true for Lemmy, but Mbin and PieFed go far beyond what Reddit tried to do. Unless Reddit has plans to also directly show posts from X?
  
  True, but if we say Reddit alternative, we can then say, oh we also have Twitter
- Soon to be "digg alternative"

Fedi... Been doing it and it works
- Sounds like FBI is knocking
  
  Federated Boards of Internet
  
  I am sure feds b on fedi tbh

Lembinfed
- Piemmy
  
  I read this as Plemmy (pronounced like Phlegmy?) and was like "ew, no!"
  
  PiembimmyBB
  
  Plembin?

Versed
- Versed rolls off the tongue. Bonus affinity from me (healthcare worker) for sounding like the benzo. ;)
- That's actually cool

idk, fediverse seems fine to me
- It is, but we're not really the same kind of platform than Mastodon or Misskey, or Pixelfed or Peertube
  
  Isn't that a bit of a shame though? I mean the fact that there's so little interconnection between these platforms. I know culturally there isn't too much but also the threadiverse often doesn't federate properly or support the way the rest of the fediverse works.
  
  Seriously. Mastodon is just a huge monoculture, and you probably wouldn't be able to tell a user's instance from their comments for example. While forumverse (i'm going to use this now xd) instances feel very defined and not too hard to tell where users are from (except with general instances, that can get hard.

I would say Men of Low Moral Fibre but that's not inclusive...

We went with "forum style" fediverse platform
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users
- Nice guide!

LinkHub

I've thought the same about "link aggregator" on join-lemmy.org, even though it seems like the best two words to use to describe such platforms, it needs further explanation most of the time.
Reddit was hard to market for the same reasons, although they had a pretty good name.

"Fedup"

Disqus is actually a quite good name when you think about it
- It's already in use. It's a commenting system on some blogs/websites:
  https://disqus.com/
  
  I know
- Sounds like disgust
- Disqus, Discourse, Discord, yeah, never gonna be able to able to remember which is which ...
  
  Discuit for 200 more users
- What makes you say that? Just curious
  
  Close to the "discuss" concept, and doesn't sound too bad, especially compared to the rest of the names here

Link aggregators anonymous

Does anybody has a better name other than "fediverse"? I find it pretty terrible due to my native language.
- Threadiverse? Forumverse?
  
  These are good names, but I mean as an alternative name for "Fediverse" as a whole.
- What does it mean in your native language?
  
  The way how "fedi" can be pronounce resembles the way you say someone is stinky

Feditriad/feditrinity???
Jk. I think forumverse works fine, i guess. Threadi sounds weirder imo but that's just personal opinion
- I like how this image combines Trinity from The Matrix with a heavy amount of Samuel Jackson from Pulp Fiction, with just a soupçon of Greta Thunberg mixed in:-).
- Forumverse isn't too bad
  
  Fediforums? could have Fediblogs for the masto/microblogging sites

how about we call it
THIS.
or
/THREAD
or
fuckspez
or lemmyseedemBeans
- I ALSO...
  No, wait, what have you done!?! I can't stop it, I just can't...
  CHOOSE THIS GUY'S WIFE!?

"Wheel of Fish"
- "You should have kept the fish!!!"
  
  "You so stupid!"

The Reddit-like structure of Lemmy, Mbin and I guess Piefed* make them kind of the Alaska of the Fediverse; they're not really connected to the rest of it. The other platforms without the community structures interoperate; you can comment on a Peertube video from a Pixelfed account...but that doesn't work with Lemmy and I'm not convinced I've ever interacted with Mbin.
*I just can't keep up with all the meaningless names I'm expected to remember. Hell I can't do it for people. "You know who Jim Flinnigan is?" "No I don't." "He's the freshman state congressman from Wisconsin who's proposing the controversial pecan legislation." "Oh the nut bill guy. What about him?" -1/4th of every conversation with my father, because Jim Flinnigan could be a work buddy of his, someone somewhere in Hollywood in the last 90 years, or the Wisconsin nut bill guy. "You know who Flinn Jimmigan is, right?" "No I don't." "He was Edith Head's optometrist in the 60's." On top of that, there's hardware manufacturers, the trade names for their products, commercial software apps, open source apps, a new javascript framework comes out three times a leap second...
- I feel this so hard in life... but also this particular community does make all of these interconnections between Fediverse products a very central point.
  It's true that both Mbin and PieFed have far fewer users than Lemmy, in large part bc historically they both lacked an app, yet now both have at least provisional support from some app or another, so there may be many more users of them in the future. Just search this very post for e.g. fedia.io (an Mbin instance, possibly the largest one iirc) or PieFed.social and you'll see that these other, non-Lemmy members of the Threadiverse/Forumverse/Whatever part of the Fediverse are already here.:-)
- Flinn Jimmigan
  That's it, we have our new name
  
  Wait, was that the nut bill guy or eye doctor to the costume designer to the stars?

For some reason I've never been very drawn to the name Lemmy.
Maybe because it sounds too similar to lemon? I don't know but there's just something off about it to me...
I like some of the alternatives that have been suggested so far, but struggling to come up with my own. Here's some really dumb and nonsensical ones:
Fediflections Rippleverse Gumbofedi 🤣
- Gumbofedi
  In line with the Fediverse tradition of having very debatable names 😄

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