What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?

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Threadiverse enthusiast edited

Context: this community has flairs now! (also, PieFed recently added flair support! - they don't yet federate though, particularly with Lemmy that is lagging behind in features by comparison)

So what should the flair for this be called? Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Is Forumverse the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? 💡

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In the spirit of inclusivity, and since flairs are expected to eventually federate to Lemmy (however many years it takes them to code that in Rust 😛), I am opening the poll to all instances.

Edit: apparently polls do not federate even in read-only mode, so I made a separate, normal discussion post. Edit 2: and oops, apparently editing a poll to say this erases all of the votes. Welp, we are learning!:-P Sorry about that!

  • Threadiverse

    41%

  • Forumverse

    16%

  • (The) Verse

    25%

  • Lemmyverse

    8%

  • Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed

    8%

  • Something else (say in comments)

    0%

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Foriverse

The Federation

The Federated Platforms that actually Federate Properly or FPFP for short.

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Threadiverse enthusiast OP

I'm not sure I get the first one - "for" meaning speak / talk / say? Or just short for "forum" I suppose?

If so, I think I prefer something along the lines of "topic-verse", since Fediverse already implies sharing of people talking, so what distinguishes the forum / thread / topics that we are vs. message- & people-centric Friendica and Mastodon.

Or perhaps you'll come up with an entirely different word for it, and us, all:-).

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warm typewriter edited

Thank you for taking the initiative. I hope lot people will vote so we can decide. You should use an agnostic server link so lemmy user can access to the discussion :)

If you look at the community sidebar of this community, there is also NodeBB. I'm adding flarum.

So it is not about lemmy, mbin and piefed anymore but flarum, lemmy, mbin, nodebb, piefed...

Anyway, its name should differenciate from microblog (misskey, iceshrimp, mastodon...). And they are key difference : lenghty text, topic instead users...

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Threadiverse enthusiast OP

Hehe, Topicverse? :-) Just kidding, at that point "Forumverse" would be more readily recognizeable and therefore user friendly.

We'll see how people react to the variety of alternatives.

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warm typewriter edited

Topicverse is good too :)

Oh thank, i forgot to update piefed users link.

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warm typewriter

So should we change it ? :)

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Threadiverse enthusiast OP edited

It is your call as the mod but yeah people seem to overwhelmingly prefer Threadiverse, even as half the time I use it someone comments like "eww gross, Meta trash name". Both are true at the same time?:-)

Also it's a good point that nodebb and flarum may have changed the scope of things (although I did not explain that side of the issue well at all), although then again the weight of history is heavy. With people such as the inventor of Mbin saying that they'll keep using Threadiverse rather than Forumverse, it seems easier to go with that overall flow rather than try to swim against the stream, don't you think?

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warm typewriter edited

it seems easier to go with that overall flow rather than try to swim against the stream, don't you think?

But why i asked ya to create a poll ? :)

It is your call as the mod but yeah people seem to overwhelmingly prefer Threadiverse, even as half the time I use it someone comments like "eww gross, Meta trash name". Both are true at the same time?:-)

Thank for the sum up :)

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Threadiverse enthusiast OP

Now we know the level of resistance - it was actually much higher than I realized. I learned something, so it was a good exercise!:-)

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warm typewriter edited

Yeah and i admit i'm kinda sad because mastodon also use thread. The word is too generic. So it was 70% thread 30% forum.

I really prefer forum as there is a strong link with topic, categories. But people decided so i follow the flow.

I could also change people preference as nodeBB did, but it won't have have the same impact.

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Threadiverse enthusiast OP

I sometimes prefer Forumverse myself, as you said it better captures the spirit of the wider enterprise, although I do tend to cycle around back and forth. Mostly I guess I don't care so much, so long as one name or the other becomes standardized.

I suppose a bright side is that both could be shortened to the 'verse... although not for an official name perhaps - bc the difference here between Threadiverse and Forumverse (and far more so in the wider Lemmy discussion thread; plus as you say for Mastodon as well) was not even close.

I suppose at this point the choice is more what we can live with rather than would prefer in ideal circumstances:-). Though as other non-Thread forum software becomes more prominent, perhaps people's minds will shift in response to accomodate?

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warm typewriter

Yeah i love the word Verse, there is something powerful, the verb, the universe, the poem, tfe bible...

We will see, i don't think we will see a shift as threadiverse is being enforced. We make language :)

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