Can someone describe the lingo 'fediverse'? I can hazard a guess but don't want to make assumptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
> The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other.
Usually they talk about ActivityPub, as a growing number of services are based on this (or similar).
Which I suppose it not entirely wrong when considering some of the stuff on Mastodon.
It's still a bad name though.
It's a shame because I'm really, really excited about a Renaissance of the federated web.
I'll chalk it up to poor understanding of social power structures.
That's not a better/worse value judgment -- just pointing out that some folks make the mistake of believing otherwise.
As far as value judgments go though, I've long been saying that the current model for the internet is crushing us; that collectively as a society we should get together and abolish the use and creation of social networking sites (the same way qualuudes don't exist today); and that "skin in the game" should be required for online services -- no more "free" stuff where the product is actually the user. I will gladly pay for an email account that isn't mining my data, or a search engine that's actually useful, etc.
at least it sounds good in French.