I know the Fediverse is every federated application, is the threadiverse just Mastadon, Kbin and Lemmy?

  • TheOneCurly
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    1110 months ago

    Lemmy and Kbin are the “threadiverse”, where content is submitted by users to specific groups and replies are shown in a tree-structure. In ActivityPub behind the scenes, I believe this is achieved by making non-user Actors that re-post everything @'d at them.

    Mastodon is not thread based, users post as themselves and other users follow them directly. Then everything is shown lineally.

  • Wheeljack
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    710 months ago

    I’ve never heard the term “threadiverse”. Where are you coming across it?

  • db2
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    210 months ago

    Sounds like something Zuck thunked up to EEE us tbh.

    • artillect
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      610 months ago

      The term has actually been rolling around for a few weeks, it’s just used to describe Lemmy and Kbin, since they’re based around threads instead of twitter-like posts. Nothing to do with Threads by Meta

    • Wheeljack
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      310 months ago

      Full agree. Get his product’s name as part of the general term and it’d confuse people into thinking it was the original.