Fedibridge @lemmy.dbzer0.com Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 5h ago

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

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if I say "nerd social media" my gf know exactly what I'm talking about
- Nerdscape it is
  
  Nerdland!
  
  I like this one.
- The nerdiverse
Thready
- McThreadface
  
  Amazing
The good internet
- The good internet = TGI
  
  TGIF = Thank ~~god~~ it's federated
  
  Thank Graphics Interchange Format?
- Eternal August
- The Little Internets That Could
TheVerse
- Managed by @TheDude@sh.itjust.works
- Drop the "The"
  
  Ugh, I feel dirty referencing Facebook. I am sorry.
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

???
- 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"
- People’s Front of Judea vibes
  
  Take that back, it's clearly giving Judean People's Front.
- TULAATF-LPKM...
  
  Or Tula.
- Communwealth, alliance of communities
  
  Sounds to british, confederation?
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?
Lembinfed
- Piemmy
  
  PiembimmyBB
  
  Plembin?
"Reddit alternative".
- Soon to be "digg alternative"
lemmy. come at me kbinners
- Beware the Piefed army
I would say Men of Low Moral Fibre but that's not inclusive...
LinkHub
Versed
- That's actually cool
- Versed rolls off the tongue. Bonus affinity from me (healthcare worker) for sounding like the benzo. ;)
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
  
  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.
Disqus is actually a quite good name when you think about it
- 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
Fedi... Been doing it and it works
- Sounds like FBI is knocking
  
  Federated Boards of Internet
  
  I am sure feds b on fedi tbh
"Fedup"
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.

stick-in-the-mud-tangent

I'd never tell someone to go to WordPress if I was telling them to go to a site built with Wordpress, that'd be silly and out of touch. It'd also be out of touch to use some jargon that means nothing to them like "threadiverse".

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. The major benefit to these backends is they're more open, enabling greater mobility between the instances of them/sites built with them.
- 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’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.
- Fuck facebook for stealing the name metaverse BTW.
  
  Was it from Snow Crash?
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.
Feditriad/feditrinity???

Jk. I think forumverse works fine, i guess. Threadi sounds weirder imo but that's just personal opinion
- Forumverse isn't too bad
"Wheel of Fish"
how about we call it
THIS.

or

/THREAD

or

fuckspez

or lemmyseedemBeans
We went with "forum style" fediverse platform

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users
- Nice guide!
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...
- Flinn Jimmigan
  
  That's it, we have our new name
LemmyPost
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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