Fediverse sounds gross
from noobface@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 18:12
https://lemmy.world/post/24467589

Anytime I mention it to people IRL they look uncomfortable before I explain it’s the federated universe of distributed social platforms.

That moment of 😬 is due to the name Fediverse sounding like ‘Fetiverse.’ These people aren’t sex obsessed. Most are tech professionals who were on Fark, SA, Digg…etc.

How do y’all navigate this homonymous quirk?

#fediverse

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Kichae@lemmy.ca on 19 Jan 18:17 next collapse

Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at “fediverse” not because of sex association, but because it’s a really lame sounding name.

hperrin@lemmy.ca on 19 Jan 20:26 next collapse

Ok, let’s call it the sexyverse.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 20 Jan 04:42 collapse

because it’s a really lame sounding name.

The first time I heard Fediverse I thought it had something to do with Kevin Federline.

Blaze@feddit.org on 19 Jan 18:22 next collapse

I don’t talk about the Fediverse a lot, I talk about Lemmy. It’s an okay name.

jet@hackertalks.com on 19 Jan 20:15 collapse

Lemme tell you about Lemmy, the community of loquacious learning

CaptDust@sh.itjust.works on 19 Jan 18:32 next collapse

Scrolling All, thirst traps, hentai, rope bondage…

So you’re trying to tell me this ISN’T the fetishverse? Please, explain

noobface@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 18:49 next collapse

Touché…is also the name of a fetish community.

Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org on 19 Jan 19:00 collapse

That’s why you join an instance that defederated from the porn in the first place.

Just make an alt account on a nsfw server and you‘re golden.

Lumidaub@feddit.org on 19 Jan 18:40 next collapse

I speak languages that differentiate between “t” and “d”.

justanotheruser4@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 19:02 next collapse

In Portuguese it sounds like “feder”, that means “to stink”

TORFdot0@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 19:45 next collapse

I’m so pissed right now. I thought I was joining the fetaverse but I can’t even find a single user talking about delicious crumbled cheese made from sheep’s milk

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Jan 19:50 next collapse

The “very random, as u can see” girl who posted on the “random” board of 4chan knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m is now in her early 30s.

pseudo@jlai.lu on 19 Jan 21:16 next collapse

Open that community and I’ll be the first to follow it.

haverholm@kbin.earth on 19 Jan 22:57 next collapse

AHEM, goat's and sheep's milk 😡

Stick with the pvre cvlt fetaverse principles here!

jaredwhite@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 05:27 collapse

I actually make this joke…I say it’s not fetaverse like the cheese, but fedi as in federated* 😄 always gets a laugh

* (Although, there’s no i in the word federated, so that’s odd 😜)

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 19 Jan 19:48 next collapse

If the first thing that came to mind for them was ‘Fetiverse’ then I think that’s on them.

What are they doing on the internet?

secret300@lemmy.sdf.org on 19 Jan 19:58 next collapse

What is the fetiverse? I’ve never encountered this issue. The main issue is there’s not enough activity for people to want to use it when I bring it up to IRL friends

jet@hackertalks.com on 19 Jan 20:14 next collapse

I just tell people about open source reddit, it’s called Lemmy.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 19 Jan 20:36 next collapse

We’re building a new federated social media universe to distribute it rather than it being centralised in a few single companies like Meta and Reddit. It consists of several different service ideas like Lemmy, Mastodon and PeerTube, over 40 in all. Each of those has hundreds of different instances where little and larger communities share with each other and with other communities and services. We call this Federated Universe the fediverse. Wanna join?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

pseudo@jlai.lu on 19 Jan 21:15 next collapse

I have no idea what fetiverse means. Neither do my friends unless they are very polite people.

haverholm@kbin.earth on 19 Jan 22:53 collapse

I guess OP means it sounds like "fetish", but this looks like a retread of the "what if people think the fediverse logo looks like a pentagram?" hypothetical that didn't have any root in reality either.

noobface@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 23:04 collapse

I wish it was hypothetical. Two slightly awkward conversations prompted this.

haverholm@kbin.earth on 19 Jan 23:19 collapse

In that case, sorry to break it to you: It's hard to swallow (no pun intended), but sometimes you just have to accept that people of your immediate acquaintance or relation are utterly unkinky.

jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 00:03 next collapse

I tried really hard to understand this. It isn’t working.

I put in my share of the work. I think it just does not make sense.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 20 Jan 04:38 collapse

They are saying that when they speak the word FeDiverse people hear FeTiverse as in a universe for fetishes.

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de on 20 Jan 10:19 collapse

Maybe it's your pronunciation? I'd just make the 'd' a bit softer and put emphasis on the vowels. But then I don't really know, my first language isn't English and though we have the same word for "fetish", it has a lot more harshness to the 't' and especially the 'sh' so I've never seen anyone jump from one to the other when I said it out loud.