Q: I'm new. What is this “Fediverse” I keep seeing around? Are we not “threadiverse”?

A very good question, my fellow kababayans.

To put it simply, the “fediverse” is ALL software that communicates through the #ActivityPub protocol.

Think of it like this:

• Name: Web
• Protocol: HTTP(s)
• Browser: Firefox, Whale, etc.

The Fediverse is like this:

• Name: Fediverse
• Protocol: ActivityPub
• Browser: Friendica, Hubzilla, Calckey, Akkoma, Rebased, BookWyrm, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.

The “threadiverse” is not a separate thing or network, it is just one part of the Fediverse.

Just like how the Mastodon software is not interchangeable with the word #Fediverse because it is just one part of the fediverse network.

To put it another:

• “ASEAN”-verse is not a separate continent, it is just a sub-area of the continent called “Asia”.
• “China” is not interchangeable with “Asia”. “China” is just one part of “Asia”.

Got it so far?

Awesome!

In most fediverse software, you will not notice that you are interacting with a user on another server who is using a different software. Just like how you do not have an idea if the website you are visiting is using Linux or Windows as its server operating system.

That is the Fediverse in a nutshell.

Q: Wait, then what is this “threadiverse”?

A: This recently created terminology simply refers to the link-aggregator (as Wikipedia calls it) types of Fediverse software. It is not a separate network, it refers to a group of fediverse software.

Maligayang pagdating sa fediverse.

https://axbom.com/content/images/size/w1000/2023/01/fediverse-branches-axbom-30-CC-BY-SA.webp

Title: The many branches of the Fediverse
License: #CCBySA4
By: Per Axbom ( https://axbom.com/fediverse/ )
🛈 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_branches_1.2.png
More info: https://axbom.com/fediverse/