New Rule
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We are stuck with "Threadiverse" as the least worst alternative for a word that means the subset of the Fediverse that is not microblogging and instead of that user-centric sharing offers topic-based, threaded, forum-style conversations.
Thankfully, it predates that horrid experiment in yet another failure, and also most people choose it (over e.g. "Forumverse"), including several high-profile ones such as the creators of Mbin and nodeBB and our beloved Ada that have used it for many years and now do not want to switch.
But mainly it seems for lack of anything better to call it? "The Verse" has a nice ring to it, but lacks specificity. "Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin + nodeBB + maybe flarum or is Sublinks now dead also like Kbin, but not Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Loops, etc." is way too long and keeps changing, as too does the method of access, through Voyager, Thunder, Summit, Blorp, Interstellar, etc. as all those work with at least two instance software types.
I've seen @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com use "Boardnet" the other day, maybe it can be an alternative?
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This is not the place to start flamewars between Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed.
(we can still make fun of the og nodebb folks)
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(we can still make fun of the og nodebb folks)
Of course, if they didn't want that they wouldn't call their software nod ebb.
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This is not the place to start flamewars between Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed.
Can we start cold wars?
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We are stuck with "Threadiverse" as the least worst alternative for a word that means the subset of the Fediverse that is not microblogging and instead of that user-centric sharing offers topic-based, threaded, forum-style conversations.
Thankfully, it predates that horrid experiment in yet another failure, and also most people choose it (over e.g. "Forumverse"), including several high-profile ones such as the creators of Mbin and nodeBB and our beloved Ada that have used it for many years and now do not want to switch.
But mainly it seems for lack of anything better to call it? "The Verse" has a nice ring to it, but lacks specificity. "Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin + nodeBB + maybe flarum or is Sublinks now dead also like Kbin, but not Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Loops, etc." is way too long and keeps changing, as too does the method of access, through Voyager, Thunder, Summit, Blorp, Interstellar, etc. as all those work with at least two instance software types.
No we aren't and you don't need to preemptively comply when you're not even on Thread
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Can we start cold wars?
Only cold brews allowed
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Can we start cold wars?
Space race to the moon?
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Bookwyrm the PieFed instance or Bookwyrm the software?
Bookwyrm the PieFed instance
I can't believe they dare to do that. The fediverse is such a chaotic space.
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Fediverse. Threads is only that guy that goes to a party because there's free food and drink.
I love the term threadiverse and twittoverse to refer to different galaxie of software within the bigger federated universe.
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I've seen @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com use "Boardnet" the other day, maybe it can be an alternative?
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
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No we aren't and you don't need to preemptively comply when you're not even on Thread
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!?
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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
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I've seen @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com use "Boardnet" the other day, maybe it can be an alternative?
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?
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Of course, if they didn't want that they wouldn't call their software nod ebb.
Better than nob edd!
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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?
Thank you for the numbers!
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This is not the place to start flamewars between Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed.
I hope the discussion on the features and bugs is still allowed. It’s just the drama around the devs that is prohibited.
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(we can still make fun of the og nodebb folks)
I am here for this. Elbows up!
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Better than nob edd!
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?
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