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What do you, in practice, call the federated social media network?

By "in practice" I mean the name you use when you aren't thinking about your language usage carefully (as opposed to what you think it should be logically called).

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silverwizard
silverwizard  
I call it "The Fediverse, ya know, Mastodon"
Toni :mastodon:
Toni :mastodon:  
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No.
Fediverse i'ts more more than Mastodon.
They are many nets in fediverse .
@urusan
@Urusan
silverwizard
silverwizard  
I hate Mastodon as a software product and would prefer it didn't exist

to be clear
Toni :mastodon:
Toni :mastodon:  
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but do you like the other fediverse networks?

@urusan
@Urusan
silverwizard
silverwizard  
I love ActivityPub! and Diaspora! and more stuff!
Toni :mastodon:
Toni :mastodon:  
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Ahh, ok ok, I understand you now.

May I ask why you don't like Mastodon?

@urusan
@Urusan
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Mostly the specific ways in which the project confuses the Fediverse

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Toni :mastodon:
Toni :mastodon:  
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Ahh, así si, de esa forma tampoco me gusta a mi.
El fediverse es mucho mucho más que Mastodon si.
Estoy de acuerdo.
@urusan
@Urusan
Alexandre Oliva
Alexandre Oliva  
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like when people refer to the GNU Operating System as Linux?
silverwizard
silverwizard  
You mean GNU/Hurd? I've never called that Linux. ;)
Toni :mastodon:
Toni :mastodon:  
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I'ta # or Gnuhard.

But linux only no correct.

@silverwizard
#gnulinux @silverwizard
Toni :mastodon:
Toni :mastodon:  
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Ahh, yes, that way I don't like it either.
The fediverse is much much more than Mastodon yes.
I agree.

@silverwizard @urusan
@Urusan @silverwizard
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
Nelson Chu Pavlosky  
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I regularly use both Mastodon and Pixelfed in an interoperable fashion, e.g. boosting posts from one on the other. I also hope to use other Fediverse software, such as BookWyrm, in the future.

So while I sometimes use "Mastodon" as shorthand, I talk about the Fediverse the majority of the time, since that better reflects my actual experience.
Stephen Brooks 🦆
Stephen Brooks 🦆  
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For a few months I called it "Mastodon" but then realised I wasn't referring to the front end software, so call it the "fediverse" now, which sounds weird but whatever.
Eddie Roosenmaallen
Eddie Roosenmaallen  
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I usually talk about "the fediverse, like Mastodon and all those".
ActivityPub _sounds lile_ the name of a web standard, so folks' eyes glaze over and they stop listening immediately, but I don't like to mention *just* Masto, because there's so many to choose from and we don't want to encourage a monoculture.
Frost, Wolffucker 🐺:therian:
Frost, Wolffucker 🐺:therian:  
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I wish this was multiple choice, because we use "masto" and "fedi" about interchangeably. Although more often "masto".
OpenComputeDesign
OpenComputeDesign  
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I honestly call it "Linux social media" or "that place I am on the internet" so my family has any idea what I'm talking about.
calc.exe
calc.exe  
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"Fedi" usually, it ticks me off when people say "Mastodon" tbh :/
null
null  
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roughly 50/50 masto/fedi

sometimes ill ref plush city but its rare
Javier
Javier  
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Email.

Not completely joking (but yes, a bit), I usually say "Mastodon", but try to always point that federated protocols are the foundation of the internet. BGP, DNS, SMTP, heck, even HTTP! are all federated and decentralised.
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