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?
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.
Ok, let’s call it the sexyverse.
because it’s a really lame sounding name.
The first time I heard Fediverse I thought it had something to do with Kevin Federline.
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
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 😜)
The “very random, as u can see” girl who posted on the “random” board of 4chan https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m is now in her early 30s.
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Touché…is also the name of a fetish community.
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?
In Portuguese it sounds like “feder”, that means “to stink”
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.
They are saying that when they speak the word FeDiverse people hear FeTiverse as in a universe for fetishes.
