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 don’t talk about the Fediverse a lot, I talk about Lemmy. It’s an okay name.
Lemme tell you about Lemmy, the community of loquacious learning