What do you usually call it?

[Ospite]

@evan Fediverse, the social networks - and if someone cares to ask I can then explain what the Fediverse is.

[the_moep@mastodon.de]

@evan I catch myself saying Mastodon but if I do I try to correct myself/specify that I mean all of the Fediverse. (Seeing as I run Sharkey and Peertube servers too that's kinda in my own interest)

[smeschmesch@mastodon.social]

@evan

"that twitter alternative for old-ish, pedantic nerdy IT guys."

(no, "Fediverse", because I understand that "Mastodon" isn't accurate/correct.)

[kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de]

@evan I think "Social Web" is the best word. Fediverse ist second and Mastodon third. But if people understand anything, it's Mastodon. Thus I mostly use that in spoken language.

[cyb3rrunn3r@cyb3rrunn3r.de]

@evan@cosocial.ca Where I am here?? Mastodon. It's only PART of the Fediverse. 🙂

[broadway_lamb@mastodon.online]

@hiker @Huubje @evan if we’re being pedantic here, then Outlook is a bad example. A good example would be using the word “escalator” instead of “moving stairs”.

For non-tech people, the chance of the word “Mastodon” ringing a bell is much higher than “Fediverse”.

In day-to-day interpersonal communication the goal is to be understood, not to be as precise as possible.

[padraig@mastodon.ie]

@evan Fediverse or Fedi.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@evan
Most people know it as Mastodon where it is actually Fediverse and technically ActivityPub. This is where people lose track and start asking about the weather.

[wjmaggos@liberal.city]

@evan

fedi and #SocialWeb. shocked that so few use SW.

maybe I should use a different term tho since I don't want us thinking of it as separate. imo it's an attention layer for the web. any digital work we publish should be boostable. when that mindset takes hold, the closed platforms will seem anachronistic.

[hackeryarn@mastodon.social]

@evan Mastodon is the gateway term. Even technical people have an easier time wrapping their head around a single service than the idea of multiple types of interconnected apps.

If they get curious, I will go into the Fediverse.

[47363@norden.social]

@evan

This poll needs checkboxes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ben@kwiecien.us]

@evan When I talk to people who wouldn't have a clue, I tend to call it "Mastodon", but I'd rather be more accurate and say "Fediverse" to those who know the term. "Fediverse" is just easier to say than "the ActivityPub network"

[pauamma@mstdn.social]

@evan I tried all these names and it never comes when I call it.

[me@social.jlamothe.net]

@ben @evan I usually call it the fediverse or fedi, especially since I'm not on mastodon.* If asked what that is, I will typically offer, "a largely volunteer-run decentralized social network of which mastodon is a part." I don't want to perpetuate the misconception that Mastodon is all there is to the fedi.

* I technically still have an old Fosstodon account that I fall back on when I'm having server issues, but it doesn't get much use.

[blippythewonderslug@ieji.de]

@evan
#HephalumpWorld.

[jcolag@mastodon.social]

@evan It depends. Conversationally, it's Mastodon, because people have heard of it and I use it, and there's a "but also not necessarily Mastodon" footnote that's a great foot-in-the-door for the ActivityPub conversation even for non-technical people. But I use Fediverse more commonly in structured work.

I hate "Social Web," because it sounds like a euphemism for the "five websites sharing screenshots of the other four" thing, and the web is much more than conversations.

[pouakai@mastodon.social]

@evan
This depends on what is 'it' you referred.
ActivityPub is the protocol Fediverse used, while Mastodon is one of the implementation.
If ActivityPub = Fediverse = Mastodon, then how should we call Pixelfed / Lemme / Misskey?

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@evan
Tooter

[huubje@ieji.de]

@broadway_lamb @hiker @evan it's also a matter of not scaring away "normal people" and having a pleasant conversation. Most people don't give a rat's arse about the technical merits of platforms they use. I instead mention the aspects people can relate to, such as the focus on actual social interaction and it's lack of influencers.

[mysideishumanity@myprivate.social]

@evan You forgot option 5, that some people subconsciously view it as: Exploitable Resource.