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?
Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at “fediverse” not because of sex association, but because it’s a really lame sounding name.
Ok, let’s call it the sexyverse.
The first time I heard Fediverse I thought it had something to do with Kevin Federline.