Wood Wide Web: Already a term in biology. “Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another. This subterranean social network, nearly 500 million years old, has become known as the “wood wide web”.” (BBC)

Fungiverse: Most similar to the term fediverse though I never understood the “universe” part of the term. What does it mean in this context? Its more a social network, right? Much more like the internet it is based on a certain protocol.

Fungal/Fungi Web: Shorter than Wood Wide Web and maybe easier to say. In contrast to Wood Wide Web, maybe it’s also better to not confuse tech and nature here. I also in general like the term “social web” more, because it emphasizes that it is basically going on top of the usual web just through a new protocol.

I think Wood Wide Web would be best, because it could emphasize that it should be energy-efficient and have the goal of connecting people to collaborate toward a sustainable future. Also: in a story that plays in a world in which humanoid plants live, it would just make sense that they discover the Wood Wide Web at some point. What do you think?

  • ElectricMachmanEnglish
    1•1 year ago
    1. But ‘universe’ doesn’t necessarily relate to virtual reality either. In fact, ‘universe’ is probably the least sealed term you could use, given that as far as we’re aware, the universe encompasses everything.
    2. ‘Federated’ has been a term in IT for a long, long time, and has always been used to refer to two extant systems with a protocol in common. In this case, it’s (for example) Mastodon and Lemmy, communicating via ActivityPub; but you could equally federate two Active Directory instances.
    • @[email protected]OP
      1•1 year ago
      1. Every social network is it’s own universe. So basically if you speak about the multiverse of social networks universe sounds pretty sealed.
      2. Fair enough, I’m just not sure it’s THE defining feature of the social web that I have in mind. For me it’s more the dezentral aspect and that’s for me best represented with fungi