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Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?

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. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? ๐Ÿ’ก

Anyway, the start to a listing:

  1. Threadiverse
  2. Forumverse
  3. (The) Verse
  4. Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
  5. Something else?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well, if you look at the sidebar of [email protected] i included NodeBB. ๐Ÿ˜…

In this post too ๐Ÿฅน

Forumverse : for any news and features about Lemmy, Mbin, NodeBB, PieFed

So it can't be Lemmy,Mbin,PieFed. And i'm adding flarum.

However, we can create separate category :

  • aggregator link : lemmy,mbin,piefed
  • forum : nodebb, flarum
  1. Thank to Meta, i don't like it...
  2. My favorite one, it remind me of forum era
  3. Abstract and beautiful. Poetry, bible and verb. Something we have never see before ๐Ÿ˜Š.
  4. i'm against. Link aggregator shouldn't be tied by a software name but a global concept as thread of forum. If i have 6 softwares...do you write them all ?
  5. linkagg lousy but pratical. Bad name are the best. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

I think we should redo the post, but, for now, let's see where it go ๐Ÿ˜Š

Edit : added answer

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

So far, mainly from this post bc the poll has such a small sample size, the term that seems vastly preferred is Threadiverse. Bc of its history, and how people have already been calling it that. Sort this post by Hot to see what I mean.

I don't think Forumverse is "bad", plus as you say it better represents the new additions of nodebb and flarum. Although that term would be swimming against the tide of people that have been using Threadiverse all this time and seem to not want to switch (possibly bc I did not explain the situation well, especially the clarification about the term Fediverse already existing, and now how the situation is a bit different wrt nodebb and flarum).

Ofc this is all just on a Sunday -> there is still lots of room for things to happen in the next coming days, to see how these results may shift:-).