Still, the question "What is the fediverse" is an unanswered one, that leads not only to confusion, but has direct effect on the evolution of this fedi social networking environment.
Take the europa.eu website, or the Dutch gov, who proudly announce they 'joined the fediverse'. And they make this clear by adding a Mastodon icon to their socials, where Mastodon is a particular brand, a product that is fediverse enabled. And it has a very restrictive domain, the social use cases that this product covers, namely microblogging.
My own use of fediverse is as a simple utility word, same as internet and web. And that is separate from the particular enabling technologies i.e. ActivityPub most prominently.
But positioning "fediverse" to the broader public is hard, esp. when its app-centric. The other day I mentioned perhaps it should be advertised as ActivityPub or even ActivityStreams, where you tap into a Microblog stream, or a Video stream, etc.
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2026-06-25 10:17:47 UTC
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