I used to say “Welcome to Lemmy” to new joiners, but nowadays quite a few of them join Piefed instance, having a generic term is easier

You can’t follow Mastodon users from Lemmy or Piefed, using “Fedivers” seems too generic

Previous post on the same topic: https://lemmy.zip/post/33451610

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    Yup I personally always use threadiverse and love to use threadiverse.link instead of lemmyverse.link

    Maybe I missed something but never saw a problem with that name.

    Edit: wanted to add that voyager has also started to use threadiverse.link as a share option (i believe lemsha.re as well but that service shut down).

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      The only concern I’ve seen with the name is that Facebook named their thing “Threads”, and so it might be confusing for people familiar with that.

      I still use the term 🤷

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        Ahhh that was the problem! Okay I kinda understand. But I think we can refuse to let that asshole company steal words like Meta, Face & Book, Threads, etc. and act as if that was their invention.

        But yeah I just kept using threadiverse because I feel like everyone here understands exactly what it is and others use it too. If people wouldn’t I wouldn’t use it I guess :)

        Edit: gonna start shortening that to TV so I can just tell everyone “saw that on TV”

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          It was feeling like older twitter for a little bit but enough ppl joined and now the algorithim is the same trash modern x is.

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        Gemini is both the Google AI and the network protocol, it seems clear which one you’re referring to depending on context