@Gargron @blaine @mconnor @rigo I’ve been thinking about this a lot for a while (and I’ll write up thoughts so people can respond more fully), but what’s clearly needed is a consistent way of referring to ActivityPub-connected platforms, and “fediverse” doesn’t do the job effectively (at least yet) for the broader audience many of us would like to reach.

@Gargron @blaine @mconnor @rigo

The problem when talking with people who aren’t across the term Fediverse, is that Mastodon is a term those people tend to recognise now.

I don’t think you can control how this facet of language/culture develops. There’s a whole subset of folk in the UK who say “hoover” interchangeably with vacuum cleaner, for example.