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?
I’m so pissed right now. I thought I was joining the fetaverse but I can’t even find a single user talking about delicious crumbled cheese made from sheep’s milk
AHEM, goat’s and sheep’s milk 😡
Stick with the pvre cvlt fetaverse principles here!
I actually make this joke…I say it’s not fetaverse like the cheese, but fedi as in federated* 😄 always gets a laugh
* (Although, there’s no i in the word federated, so that’s odd 😜)
Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at “fediverse” not because of sex association, but because it’s a really lame sounding name.
Maybe it’s your pronunciation? I’d just make the ‘d’ a bit softer and put emphasis on the vowels. But then I don’t really know, my first language isn’t English and though we have the same word for “fetish”, it has a lot more harshness to the ‘t’ and especially the ‘sh’ so I’ve never seen anyone jump from one to the other when I said it out loud.
I don’t talk about the Fediverse a lot, I talk about Lemmy. It’s an okay name.
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.
If the first thing that came to mind for them was ‘Fetiverse’ then I think that’s on them.
What are they doing on the internet?
