Blend offederation +universe. The earliest known mention offediverse on Twitter was in 2012.[1] The earliest known use offediverse by theW3C was in 2013.[2]
2020, Jessica Megarry,The Limitations of Social Media Feminism: No Space of Our Own, Springer Nature,→ISBN,page303:
While there is clearly a strong appetite amongst women to move away from the digital giants, Spinster is hardly free from their reach, or indeed from hostile men within the widerFediverse network.
2022, “Decentralized networks vs the trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudiet al., editors,Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security, Springer Nature,→ISBN,page149:
The migration of Gab marked a major test for theFediverse. Because no one authority controlled the policies of the network, it would be impossible to bar Gab with a single sweeping action, the way centralized social networks such as Facebook or Twitter might.
2022 November 14, Will Knight, “The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment”, inWired[2],→ISSN:
Instead of creating a single unified platform, the the[sic] protocol that Mastodon uses, called ActivityPub, allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a server that hosts a Twitter-style community with its own rules. Together those servers,and other, non-Mastodon ones, form a collective of interlinked communities dubbed the “Fediverse.”
Historically, the termsThe Fediverse,The Federation andThe Free Network have been used interchangeably. Over time with the evolution of various social web protocols,The Fediverse has increasingly been adapted to uniquely refer specifically to the growingActivityPub network. The other terms are more general and may encompass various protocols.
There is no definitive consensus on the capitalisation of the name; similar to the wordInternet. BothFediverse andfediverse are commonly used.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
^Mark Eckenwiler (25 May 2012),Twitter[1], archived fromthe original on10 December 2022: “@IMGoph Fully accessible from my part of the fediverse”
^Mikael Nordfeldth (26 October 2013), “Re: Federated Social Web 2013 in Europe?”, inFederated Social Web Community Group: “We're a bunch of folks in the OStatus fediverse (StatusNet/GNU social) that will attend.”
