Notices by Alex Oberhauser (obale@social.oberhauser.space)

@AlisonW @aswath @fediversenews @panic That is actually a very interesting perspective and thinking about it I tend to agree. It may give the same impression and confuse the situation more.

New users are missing the context and may misinterpret the meaning.

@maegul @AlisonW @aswath @fediversenews @panic That is true. The question is if it conveys the fact that communities are not isolated and no matter what community server you originally join you can communicate and interact with all other ones. At least as long as they are not blocked.

Languages are always ambiguous, so there may be clarification need no matter how we are calling things. Once a term catches on and people are comfortable with it in this context that wouldn’t be a problem anymore.

@Stark9837 @aswath @fediversenews @panic Completely agree. It is actually far simpler than it is framed . At least from an end-user perspective. Even the ActivityPub specification is not overall complicated for people that want or need to read it.

Once the Fediverse reaches critical mass I think that will change. It will go like that: “All my friends are here and most of them are on this community server so I just sign up there too”

@aswath @fediversenews @panic I guess part of the “problem” is that these type of new products are normally first adopted by technical early adopters and worked on from a deeply technical side.

Problem is here under quotes because it is not a really a problem more part of the product life cycle. Terminology will change over the next months to be more mass market friendly.

I am using the term product here in the loosest way possible.