@evan @smkellat I did not and don’t like the term especially. I live with it.
Evan and I are two of the three cofounders of GNU social (written as social) which is the name for the merger of GNU Social (which split off from GNU FM aka Libre.fm), StatusNet (identi.ca pre pumpio) and FreeSocial projects.
This stuff is complicated. Evan has a book about ActivityPub coming out (it’s very good) and one day I’ll finish the thing I wrote about this era of my life and my side of things.