Looks like the #fediverse has champions at the Verge;
"But all of this stuff only works if there is a standard, and I’d bet $10 that ActivityPub is going to be that standard. It’s the one that’s overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium, it’s the one with the most momentum, it’s the one Threads is supposedly going to support — it’s just kind of clearly winning."
#DavidPierce, Verge editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host, 2024
https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
"Federation is the idea of decentralizing and distributing something so it’s not controlled and stored in a single place."
#DavidPierce, 2024
https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
Hmm, not quite. In a nutshell;
* decentralisation: "not controlled and stored in a single place"
* federated: a form of decentralisation that uses servers, but you can choose which one
In contrasts to...
* distributed: a form of decentralisation without servers, where all connections are from app to app (P2P/ Peer-to-Peer)
"Beyond that… I guess the metaverse was also a big thing when people were figuring out what to call this. So we got 'fediverse'."
#DavidPierce, 2024
https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
Umm... no. "Metaverse" became a buzzphrase around the time FarceBook's parent company changed its name to Meta in 2021. "Fediverse" was already widely in use by early 2017;
