The federated universe of servers that talk to each other — Mastodon, and its cousins — as the name for the social internet that nobody owns, which everyone joins during a Twitter crisis and most leave after. The record's entry for the alternative, which is always there.
You were there or you weren't. I remember the first week of Fediverse — 2018, roughly — and the specific feeling that everyone had agreed on a joke overnight without a meeting.
Logged: Fediverse, used sincerely, by a person over forty, in a comment under a recipe. No irony detected. Date and screenshot on file.
The record notes the fediverse gains a million users every time Twitter has a bad week, and that the record has an account there it has not checked since 2023.
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