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phiofx

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Totally tired of social media, just looking for a quiet corner to watch digital life flow by. Will have an influential blog at some point, self-host an amazing fediverse server too.

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I'm thinking I might stop using the term #fediverse #fedi or #activitypub when I want to talk about this community of federated social media services.

It's confusing and to be honest sounds way too much like a corporate brand trying to sell something.

I'm thinking I might start using something like "open internet" in general and "open social media" in particular to make the point that fedi isn't some specific thing; it's the default social media for the open internet.

Am I wrong?

phiofx,
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@doctormo to me it feels like this technology path is about more than "social media". Its a general pattern for bidirectional exchange of information online via web standards. This can lead us to amazing new places that were maybe implicit in the original web vision but kept untapped for decades.

The right choice of label would be sketching that new reality in a clear and catchy way, thereby bringing it closer. Not sure "open + something" conveys that though.

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