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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
How about Lemmy?
How about kbin? /s
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?
Beehaw is another Lemmy instance. Kbin in a different piece of software but it uses the ActivityPub protocol so it can interact with Lemmy.
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.
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
Correct, it's completely different software.
But lemmy.ml are blocking kbin instance and kbin bots 😩
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.
Hmm... I will try again. Because some like fedia.io still blocked... smh..
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.
Fediverse really sounds like the metaverse but for feds... Not exactly a term i want to associate with
Welcome to the Federaleverse 😎 lol the fed-a-verse is normal social media where they have teams dedicated to responding to subpoenas
Joins furry-loli-snuff community in the Federalverse
"Why don't you take a seat over there?"
Kablammy/Kblemmy maybe?
And our new logo will be an exploding lemming.
That would be funny as fuck and I fully support it.
I miss that game.
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!
The 'verse
You can say threadiverse without explaining the fedi part.
most people call it fedi
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.
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
Fedi isn't too bad either. Is there not anything else that goes by that name though?
Not that I'm aware of. I think it's just short for fediverse
We're all Fedinauts! 👨🚀