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Some folks have gotten themselves together as something they’re calling the Social Web Foundation, and I’ll cut to the chase: this is an attempt by ActivityPub partisans to rebrand the confusing “fediverse” terminology, and in the process, regardless of intent, shit on everything else that’s been the social web going back twenty-five years.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 10 points 1 month ago (10 children)

What's a better protocol for a social web?

[–] erlend_sh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

His point is there is no one protocol for the social web. The (open) social web is built on a pluriverse of protocols, like rss, email, irc, matrix, activitypub, atproto…

[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Applause for the term "pluriverse" (did you coin it?).

And a standing ovation for the alliterative phrase "pluriverse of protocols".

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was the first person to post on the pluriverse in 2008.

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