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.
blaze@lemmy.zip there's nothing specifically precluding Lemmy and Piefed from following users.
You can follow users on NodeBB, and in fact because I did worked on Mastodon microblog interop first, the software only gained the ability to follow a category relatively recently.
So dessalines@lemmy.ml has a point about it all being the fediverse, because some of what separates Lemmy/Piefed/mbin and Mastodon are artificial.
Eh we all have our opinions although I feel Threadiverse rolls off the tongue better than forumiverse (or foriverse which I also dislike.)
Also the term predates Threads by a full year, but I refuse to let the term die because of that association.
The fact that you name dropped NodeBB (a good example), Flarum (which has no working federation), but did not mention Discourse (which has only partially working federation and limited threadiverse support) gives me the warm and fuzzies 🤣
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.