I’ve begun to wonder about this question. There’s nothing implied in the existence of the fediverse that it will include every site, and there’s nothing implied in the existence of every non-fediverse site which would stop them from forming their own fediverse. One could technically say email providers have already achieved this, though this only really applies to email providers which doesn’t make it as useful as the fediverse we know and love. Are there actually other fediverses out there?
In multi-fediverse theory, there are infinite fediverses where any and every possibility of fediverse exists.
There are hundreds of other federated systems, yes.
As per what your question is asking, I’m not sure if there are fedoverse systems branched off from the “main” one. I guess Lemmy/forum stuff can’t really federate with Microblogging-style things.
No, there’s also the good alternate Fediverse where I don’t have a goatee.
Pingback introduced back-linking websites practically forming a network in 2002.
URLs are a form of linking content, forming a network. Although uni-directional (into one direction only).
Some platforms integrate into websites and form a form of meta-network of their content or accounts.
Most recently and popular, the AT Protocol is an alternative generic protocol similar to the fediverse, powering Bluesky.
Web-rings were also a thing in the mid-to-late '90s before search engines really took off.
Basically you’d put a banner on your site that listed a site “before” yours in the ring, the one “after” and maybe a “random” link as well.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I suppose telephones were a sort of fediverse.
Dude your mom’s a sort of fediverse
ZeroNet? Tor Network? I2P?
Long ago Usenet and BBS networks worked in a manner that we could describe as federated, if you mean a decentralized system where servers could communicate with each other. I saw something a few months ago about a modern service that sounds kind of similar, but I don’t remember the name now. It seemed interesting but I put it in the back burner and then lost it.
Is anything federated with Truth Social?
No
There’s only one fediverse, everyone doesn’t have to talk to each other
What if a few instances only shared with each other? Wouldn’t that create a second separate fediverse?
If a few servers are linked up and talk to each other using TCP/IP (?) but aren’t connected to the wider network, that’s not enough for it to be considered another internet (but it could be an intranet).
If a few instances are linked up and talk to each other using ActivityPub but aren’t connected to the wider network, I think that’s not enough for it to be considered another fediverse.
Kind of like how some parts of our universe are so far away that they’re physically unreachable.
