Take a leaf from the crypto pumpers and call it web4?
"It's like web3 but advanced beyond money. You know, like in Star Trek. Hoarding tokens is just so 20th century."
It’s striking how much sense this makes to me: you interact in social networks like mail servers interact with each other. How did this concept take this long! (I know it’s not NEW new but still… fairly new)
Suddenly, due to the distributed nature, it doesn’t need to be expensive to have your own server to be part of it, like how running a mail server can be cheap. But if you don’t want to care about that, just sign up on an existing server like most do! In either case, it’s cheaper because it’s not centralized and because it’s cheaper it doesn’t need ads for funding and because it doesn’t need ads it doesn’t need to keep distracting you with an ever changing feed and pulling in “suggestions” (read: AI noise)
So, there is really not that much to it!
Like mail servers or chat servers (remember XMPP?), but now social network servers.
And now Mastodon has an official app too, besides an approachable web interface. And thanks to the ActivityPub standard, anyone can write a server, or client app. I think it’s pretty revolutionizing with the voice now put in our hands rather than in a corporation’s.
Definitely deserving of something more fun than “Fediverse” which sounds geeky and alienating.
The types of names that become popular are things like Beats or Goop. Is there anything remarkable about Beats headphones? No there's literally nothing except the name because it makes the average braindead person think it must be bass-boosted or something, and this was enough to make what dumb rapper came up with that name, a billionaire. But apparently this is just too intelligent for any nerds to figure out, so the Fediverse will remain unused.
This made me spit out my coffee laughing