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The term "Fediverse" concerns itself mainly with social networks and doesn't include sites like Wordpress to support ActivityPub. My proposal for a new term: the fungal web (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5064944

Let's say a site like the New York Times supports ActivityPub, so you can comment e.g. from Mastodon on an article but also from the article's page on nytimes.com, where all comments are displayed.

Is this article/nytimes.com part of the Fediverse? Yes and no. It should be but if we speak about the Fediverse we mostly mean social networks like Mastodon and Lemmy.

I think the reality is and will be slightly more complicated. I think we should think of the Fediverse as being a part of the web, be it a traditional website or a social network. That's why I propose a new term: the fungal web, based on how mushrooms act as a dezentral connector over which plants communicate.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

Don't go into marketing for a living.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I don't know, marketeers are always trying to sell you something as new that already exists.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I don’t know. It’s an interconnected network or web. Maybe internet might work. We could call them websites.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Fungal like Fungal Infections? I dont think thats a great term.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

no like fun gals doing fun stuff

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm making a new burger restaurant, I'm thinking of calling it "The Bloody Hook" based off of the hook they bleed the cows on before they become our hamburgers, what do you think?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

C'mon! The Jock Itch network! The Athlete's Foot network! The ad copy just writes itself!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure you want to associate this with things like candida infections.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Is this article/nytimes.com part of the Fediverse? Yes

FTFY. Problem solved.

if we speak about the Fediverse we mostly mean social networks like Mastodon and Lemmy.

I don't know who this "we" is but I don't. The Wikipedia article has a couple of good diagrams showing what most people consider to be the Fediverse - sure it includes the big dogs like Lemmy and Mastodon but it includes Wordpress and Diaspora (still need to dig out my old Diaspora account).

this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023

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