The Fediverse is a concept that seems to me as real as the Internet or the World Wide Web.
And Santa Claus! 🎅
Also, come to think of it, “computers” as well… and “Linux” (excuse me, GNU/Linux), and so much more besides!
There is no such thing as fairy society. There are individual fairies, and there are families of fairies.
There is no such thing as human society. There are individual humans, and there are families of humans.
But there’s a “fairy society official website” and everything!? 🤪
That’s like saying webrings didn’t exist, only discrete websites.
There’s no such thing as a murder, you only have a specific group of crows
First rule of the Fediverse: There is no such thing as “The Fediverse”
Rules of the Fediverse:
- You do not talk about the Fediverse.
- You do NOT talk about the Fediverse.
- If a user says “disengage”, goes limp, or taps out, the shitposting is over.
- As many people shitposting together as you want.
- One dogpile at a time.
- Eat the rich, fuck cars.
- Memes will go on as long as they have to - including beans.
- If this is your first time at the Fediverse, you have to do the no poop challenge.
Does anyone have an archive of the no poop challenge?
what… the…
oh man thats great. thanks lmao
Sus… where do the beans come in? (This seems like it would greatly increase the difficulty of the no poop challenge!?)
Fixed #7 to include the beans 🤣
Yay! Although now be careful, bc once beans have been invoked, jeans are sure to follow… (and then Taylor Swift’s jet, pondering orbs, and so on, long may the cycle continue:-).
I see a bunch of new accounts around here today…
… means some of you have been breaking those first 2 rules
I blame @Blaze@feddit.org! He’s always breaking them 🤣
(Seriously, he does some amazing job promoting this side of the Fediverse.)
get out of my head I watched that episode an hour ago
We know! Oh, you’re out of chips.
I hate the entire fediverse and instance jargon. It is off putting to mainstream users.
The Internet has always been “federated” with “instances”. Yet no one ever said, “What email instance do you use.”
We say “What email provider do you use?”.
Not much difference.
I dislike that it feels complicated to the average user, but it’s useful for explaining why it’s different from the corporate web.
How else would you explain what makes Lemmy/Piefed different from Reddit?
What’s a “mainstream user”?
Is any of those on the room with you? Blink if you need help.
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We don’t have to ask what instance they use, it is displayed with their user name.
WINK WINK
What alternative terminology would you use to describe the fediverse and instances?
Server or provider. The same terminology that has been used for newsgroups and email for 45 years.
There’s definitely a Fediverse. It’s a collection of instances with different links to each other determined by each instance and further filtered by users. Just because a particular instance isn’t federated with another instance doesn’t mean both of them aren’t part of the Fediverse.
People will definitely be confused if you explain it badly. They might still be confused if you explain it properly, but in this case that’s on you.
