Meaning of Fediverse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Fediverse.
   alt-of
2. The distributed social media network of federated services using open standard communication protocols, especially ActivityPub and historically OStatus.
   Internet

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Examples

“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 wider Fediverse network.”

“The migration of Gab marked a major test for the Fediverse. 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.”

“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.””

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