Fediverse sounds gross

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Anytime I mention it to people IRL they look uncomfortable before I explain it's the federated universe of distributed social platforms.

That moment of is due to the name Fediverse sounding like 'Fetiverse.' These people aren't sex obsessed. Most are tech professionals who were on Fark, SA, Digg...etc.

How do y'all navigate this homonymous quirk?

Blaze (he/him)

I don't talk about the Fediverse a lot, I talk about Lemmy. It's an okay name.

Ji Fu

@noobface certainly not a problem I've dealt with in 12 years of being on #Fedi. May be your circle of friends. In that case I'd recommend just calling it "ActivityPub" which doesn't really cover all of the 'verse, but its what most people mean when they say fediverse anyway.

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Yeah. I talk about the product directly.

Lemmy. Or Pixelfed. Or Mastodon.

I talk about the activitypub and decentralization.

I'm trying to remove Fediverse from the conversation because that's the word that starts to make people confused.