I love the term threadiverse and twittoverse to refer to different galaxie of software within the bigger federated universe.

I like threadiverse better. Why should we change just because Meta decided to stole our vocabulary? They also called whatever function within their app "Loop" just when the promesse of a fedi-alternative to TikTok was started to make noise within our small groups.

Edit : there/their

Correct: "we" can do whatever "we" like. In the poll I mentioned, many people indicated a reluctance to use "Threadiverse", but people indicated an even much STRONGER preference to use it. I guess I've grown accustomed to it, and never really cared much to begin with, so long as we picked something to call the non-microblogging portion of the Fediverse (though I liked Forumverse, or something without -Verse, or whatever we want).

Make another poll, or perhaps a meme in this community, or use whatever format you want, and offer up your own suggestions? I look forward to see what you come up with!?

People have offered so many suggestions.

In the PieFed poll, the breakdown was:

• 36% Threadiverse
• 27% (The) Verse
• 18% Forumverse
• 9% Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
• 9% Lemmyverse

But there was only 11 votes total (this was prior to the absolute explosion of PieFed users). Rimu also suggested Foriverse or The Federation or The Federated Platforms that actually Federate Properly or FPFP for short. And Snoopy liked Topicverse.

In the Lemmy version of the poll, in descending order with number of upvotes the suggestions were:

• Threadiverse (34); including extremely strong support from creators of Mbin, NodeBB, and elsewhere I've seen Ada; does not include additional upvotes to other comments also saying to use Threadiverse, e.g. another one below that with 18, or another with 12
• Forumverse (29); also other support in comments below that e.g. one with 13
• the negative answer that anything containing "-verse" is automatically bad (25)
• "A quorum of forums." (14)
• "The linked linkers, because we're link aggregators that link together." (8)
• The Verse (or Le Verse,
• Lemmyverse (or Threadiverse,
• Topicverse (7); plus others with smaller vote counts e.g. one with 3
• #Threadiville (6)
• cross-faggregatorverse (6)
• apparently Fediverse in 2008 was simply called #Identiverse, prior to ActivityPub (5); seconding the hatred towards anything with "-verse"
• aggriverse (though was this supposed to be "aggreverse"? anyway, 5)
• yes, even back in that poll irelephant suggested "boardnet"! (5 upvotes) also "forumnet"
• Lembipie (5)
• Lemmyville (4)
• gnu-verse (4)
• bulletinfedi (4)
• "Fedivotes" or "Votiverse" (4)
• The Linux hangout (4)
• open social web (2)
• Lempiebin (3)
• Mycelium (2)
• Censorverse (hehe, 3-6=-3)

So Threadiverse won by an absolute landslide, with AT LEAST +17% more votes than the next runner-up, Forumverse.

Personally I like irelephant's suggestion of "forumnet" better than boardnet. But the main obstacle is the hard-liners who do not want to budge from Threadiverse. Perhaps they might if something were clearly better and started to catch on?

Better than nob edd!

Thank you for the numbers!

I hope the discussion on the features and bugs is still allowed. It’s just the drama around the devs that is prohibited.

I am here for this. Elbows up!

Don't get me started on what a confusing name NodeBB is. We are not creative types and we thought the association with phpBB was "cool". Well, it still is, kind of, but the association holds little weight today.

I've heard "No Debb" too many times to count, I just roll with it now. sigh. No Debbs allowed, okay?