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If you talk to someone who's not here about the "Threadiverse" they are instantly going to think it's related to Meta's Threads.
I like the name I use it a lot, don't get me wrong, but that's still an issue.
Do you have occasion to talk about the threadiverse to people who do not use threadiverse software?
I usually find the conversation is much more elementary (i.e. "what are open networks", "what is the fediverse") and I'd never get into discussions about what the subset of the fediverse known as the threadiverse, is.
Yes, regularly on https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/ , when threads are posted on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Reddit users are already familiar with the Threadiverse UI, and usually are reluctant to use anything "Fediverse" due to the issues with content discovery on Mastodon.
Showing them that there is a subpart of the Fediverse that have a similar UI to Reddit and solves most of the content discovery issues of Mastodon can help to make them give the platforms a try.
Okay that's fair.
I still think that shying away from the term would just be letting Meta win.
Might be we have to add qualifiers every time we say "threadiverse"...
Then again I suppose if you have to do that then that defeats the purpose of the term, doesn't it.
Yes, that's the biggest issue.
Here is a 6 months old thread with other suggestions, some sound completely silly, some of them were nice: https://lemmy.zip/post/33451610