- From: Michał <rysiek@hackerspace.pl>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:07:47 +0000
- To: public-swicg@w3.org
Hey,
On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 1:32:50 AM GMT Johannes Ernst wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 2022, at 17:24, Aaron Parecki <aaron@parecki.com> wrote:
> >> However, what we're talking about here is the "Social Web"
> >
> > You could have stopped there!
>
> Hmm, not bad.
>
> It might need a bit of explanation, because the term in itself sounds
> descriptive, rather than the name of a “thing”.
"Social Web" is IMVHO too generic. Is Facebook part of the social web? It's
web! It's social!
I much prefer Fediverse, in no small part also because it already functions
there; plus fedi old timers call it just that — "fedi". Instead of artificially
pushing a new name, I'd just stick with "fedi" and "Fediverse".
Plenty of time and effort already went into promoting it also to the general
public. If general public can deal with "metaverse", it can deal with
"fediverse" too.
Trying to push a different term will not only confuse the general people
("okay, what's the differentce between Mastodon, Fediverse, and that Social Web
thing, then?"), but will *also* alienate fedi power users. I find that counter-
productive.
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Best,
r
Received on Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:24:55 UTC