• @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    Is there a simple name that is a good catch-all? Preferably one that’s two syllables? Lemmy is such a simple name, much like Reddit or Twitter. Fediverse and threadiverse i feel just complicate it all

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I like the name Lemmy the most personally, but not every instance is necessarily running Lemmy right? Or are all the different sites like beehaw and kbin and such also running Llemmy?

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          31 year ago

          Beehaw is another Lemmy instance. Kbin in a different piece of software but it uses the ActivityPub protocol so it can interact with Lemmy.

        • clb92
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          21 year ago

          but not every instance is necessarily running Lemmy right? Or are all the different sites like beehaw and kbin and such also running Llemmy?

          Most instances are running Lemmy (the software). Kbin (the software) is an alternative to Lemmy (the software), though they can speak to one another, because they both use the ActivityPub protocol (same as Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and so on). Kbin is much younger than Lemmy, but eventually more instances running Kbin will show up.

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            41 year ago

            But kbin isn’t like a fork or derivative of Lenny right? It’s entirely different? So referring to everything as a whole as Lemmy isn’t really right cause kbin doesn’t even use Lemmy

            • clb92
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              31 year ago

              Correct, it’s completely different software.

            • clb92
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              41 year ago

              They were for a few weeks, until today. I’m commenting from Kbin right now.

              Turns out lemmy.ml admins had blocked a lot of bots and “kbinBot” (which is the useragent name used by Kbin for federation requests) was inadvertently among the blocked bots. The lemmy.ml admins took a long time to get it fixed, but it finally works again now.

    • Chozo
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      I dislike “Fediverse” and “Threadiverse”, because I feel like Meta has left a bad taste in people’s mouths with the previews of their Metaverse, and I imagine that’s probably the first thing most people think of when they hear “Fediverse”. I think they’d be fine names on their own, if not for that.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      Fediverse really sounds like the metaverse but for feds… Not exactly a term i want to associate with

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Welcome to the Federaleverse 😎 lol the fed-a-verse is normal social media where they have teams dedicated to responding to subpoenas

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Joins furry-loli-snuff community in the Federalverse

          “Why don’t you take a seat over there?”

        • @AlligatorBlizzard
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          11 year ago

          Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemmings! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemming that burns your house down!

    • @can
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      31 year ago

      You can say threadiverse without explaining the fedi part.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Saying fedi normally includes things like mastodon, peertube, Pixelfed, etc. It doesn’t really convey that someone is specifically talking about the federated Reddit alternatives.

        • Haijo
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          11 year ago

          fair, but they are all part of the same network. I’m not using lemmy, kbin or mastodon. but I can still send messages here

        • Haijo
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          11 year ago

          Not that I’m aware of. I think it’s just short for fediverse