fediverse

Proper noun capitalized: Fediverse

the Fediverse

1. (Internet) The distributed social media network of federated services using open standard communication protocols, especially ActivityPub and historically OStatus.
   • 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.2020, Jessica Megarry, The Limitations of Social Media Feminism: No Space of Our Own, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 303
   • 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.2022, “Decentralized networks vs the trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi et al., editors, Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 149

   Synonyms:

   Fedi