Anytime I mention it to people IRL they look uncomfortable before I explain it’s the federated universe of distributed social platforms.
That moment of 😬 is due to the name Fediverse sounding like ‘Fetiverse.’ These people aren’t sex obsessed. Most are tech professionals who were on Fark, SA, Digg…etc.
How do y’all navigate this homonymous quirk?
@noobface certainly not a problem I’ve dealt with in 12 years of being on #Fedi. May be your circle of friends. In that case I’d recommend just calling it “ActivityPub” which doesn’t really cover all of the 'verse, but its what most people mean when they say fediverse anyway.