what term does the threadiverse refer to? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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is it lemmy and kbin or something else

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[-] WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 months ago

The three -verse terms I've heard in use are:

Fediverse: All the (ActivityPub-based) federated services with at least some degree of interoperability between each other
Threadiverse: Subset of fediverse focused on threads-based discussion, like link aggregation/forums-style (as opposed to i.e. microblogging)
Lemmyverse: Subset of threadiverse specifically running Lemmy (as opposed to i.e. Kbin)

[-] sab@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Lemmyverse doesn't really make sense, as it would all be visible from Kbin instances (unless they are all defederated).

What would make sense is a term for the "microblogverse", referring to all the posts from Mastodon/Miskey/Kbin/etc. This makes up the majority of the Fediverse, but it's mostly invisible to Lemmy users.

[-] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 11 months ago

As a Kbin user, microblogs definitely are not all the posts we make here. We can both microblog through "Add new post" and make a thread through "Add new link", "Add new thread", and "Add new photo".

[-] sab@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, yeah, sorry - that was badly phrased. I shouldn't have included Kbin on that list. I'm on Kbin myself, just worded myself poorly. :)

[-] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 11 months ago

Sorry! One thing Kbin doesn't do and that Lemmy seems to do sometimes is telling me, without me clicking on the user's profile, which platform and instance a poster is posting from.