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Anytime I mention it to people IRL they look uncomfortable before I explain it's the federated universe of distributed social platforms.

That moment of 😬 is due to the name Fediverse sounding like 'Fetiverse.' These people aren't sex obsessed. Most are tech professionals who were on Fark, SA, Digg...etc.

How do y'all navigate this homonymous quirk?

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[–] TORFdot0 36 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I’m so pissed right now. I thought I was joining the fetaverse but I can’t even find a single user talking about delicious crumbled cheese made from sheep’s milk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

AHEM, goat's and sheep's milk 😡

Stick with the pvre cvlt fetaverse principles here!

[–] jaredwhite 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I actually make this joke…I say it's not fetaverse like the cheese, but fedi as in federated* 😄 always gets a laugh

* (Although, there's no i in the word federated, so that's odd 😜)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Open that community and I'll be the first to follow it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The "very random, as u can see" girl who posted on the "random" board of 4chan https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m is now in her early 30s.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at "fediverse" not because of sex association, but because it's a really lame sounding name.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, let’s call it the sexyverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

because it's a really lame sounding name.

The first time I heard Fediverse I thought it had something to do with Kevin Federline.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't talk about the Fediverse a lot, I talk about Lemmy. It's an okay name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lemme tell you about Lemmy, the community of loquacious learning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I talk about the product directly.

Lemmy. Or Pixelfed. Or Mastodon.

I talk about the activitypub and decentralization.

I'm trying to remove Fediverse from the conversation because that's the word that starts to make people confused.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

If the first thing that came to mind for them was ‘Fetiverse' then I think that's on them.

What are they doing on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I speak languages that differentiate between "t" and "d".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's your pronunciation? I'd just make the 'd' a bit softer and put emphasis on the vowels. But then I don't really know, my first language isn't English and though we have the same word for "fetish", it has a lot more harshness to the 't' and especially the 'sh' so I've never seen anyone jump from one to the other when I said it out loud.

[–] justanotheruser4 5 points 2 weeks ago

In Portuguese it sounds like "feder", that means "to stink"

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried really hard to understand this. It isn't working.

I put in my share of the work. I think it just does not make sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

They are saying that when they speak the word FeDiverse people hear FeTiverse as in a universe for fetishes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I just tell people about open source reddit, it's called Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

What is the fetiverse? I've never encountered this issue. The main issue is there's not enough activity for people to want to use it when I bring it up to IRL friends

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no idea what fetiverse means. Neither do my friends unless they are very polite people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess OP means it sounds like "fetish", but this looks like a retread of the "what if people think the fediverse logo looks like a pentagram?" hypothetical that didn't have any root in reality either.

[–] noobface 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish it was hypothetical. Two slightly awkward conversations prompted this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

In that case, sorry to break it to you: It's hard to swallow (no pun intended), but sometimes you just have to accept that people of your immediate acquaintance or relation are utterly unkinky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

@noobface certainly not a problem I've dealt with in 12 years of being on #Fedi. May be your circle of friends. In that case I'd recommend just calling it "ActivityPub" which doesn't really cover all of the 'verse, but its what most people mean when they say fediverse anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We're building a new federated social media universe to distribute it rather than it being centralised in a few single companies like Meta and Reddit. It consists of several different service ideas like Lemmy, Mastodon and PeerTube, over 40 in all. Each of those has hundreds of different instances where little and larger communities share with each other and with other communities and services. We call this Federated Universe the fediverse. Wanna join?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub