[0xUser]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse " The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is the ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. On different servers (instances), users can create so-called identities. These identities are able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances because the software running on the servers supports one or more communication protocols which follow an open standard. As an identity on the fediverse, users are able to post text and other media, or to follow posts by other identities. In some cases, users can even show or share data (video, audio, text, and other files) publicly or to a selected group of identities and allow other identities to edit other users' data (such as a calendar or an address book)." (wiki)

[nottorp]

Well said. It's always funny when some acronym no one's heard of shows up unexplained on HN.

[bovermyer]

Two things:

First, don't assume that just because you've never heard a word, that means no one has heard of it. There are quite a lot of us who know what the fediverse is.

Second, and this is a little pedantic, fediverse is a portmanteau, not an acronym.

[system2]

Well, I've been here for over 3 years and never even seen fidiverse once in the news feed. Nor did use or needed.

[bovermyer]

And that's totally fine and a legitimate experience. Just be open to the idea that that is your experience, and not also the world's.

[scrollaway]

Fediverse isn't an acronym, nor is it a term "no one's heard of". You haven't heard it before, and it's great to explain it, but don't project that either.

[thrwyoilarticle]

IMO It would be worse to editorialise the submission title

[derision]

I've seen fediverse numerous times on HN

[MindTwister]

Thank you, I had no idea what the subject was from the headline