I used to say “Welcome to Lemmy” to new joiners, but nowadays quite a few of them join Piefed instance, having a generic term is easier

You can’t follow Mastodon users from Lemmy or Piefed, using “Fedivers” seems too generic

Previous post on the same topic: https://lemmy.zip/post/33451610

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    The only concern I’ve seen with the name is that Facebook named their thing “Threads”, and so it might be confusing for people familiar with that.

    I still use the term 🤷

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      Ahhh that was the problem! Okay I kinda understand. But I think we can refuse to let that asshole company steal words like Meta, Face & Book, Threads, etc. and act as if that was their invention.

      But yeah I just kept using threadiverse because I feel like everyone here understands exactly what it is and others use it too. If people wouldn’t I wouldn’t use it I guess :)

      Edit: gonna start shortening that to TV so I can just tell everyone “saw that on TV”

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        10 days ago

        It was feeling like older twitter for a little bit but enough ppl joined and now the algorithim is the same trash modern x is.

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      Gemini is both the Google AI and the network protocol, it seems clear which one you’re referring to depending on context