Pondering the "open social web" as a phrase as opposed...

Pondering the "open social web" as a phrase as opposed to "#fediverse" (as just used by @Sarahp in her latest piece on Techcrunch.)

I think it works. Merely "the social web" doesn't work IMHO because that would include the walled Facebook garden, if you use it with a web browser, and that's not what we want to say.

I've been playing with "the social web of peers" but that is rather complicated.

"#Open #social #web" also plays on the "open web" which is a term with a long history.

Thoughts?

Like 29 August at 0:31 | Open on j12t.social

5 comments

Sarah Perez 💙

@j12t I’m so tired of defining the “fediverse” 😅😅

29 August at 0:43 | Open on mastodon.social

Johannes Ernst

@Sarahp But do people understand "open social web" without definition? Correctly? 🙂

29 August at 0:49 | Open on j12t.social

Sarah Perez 💙

@j12t maybe not, but it’s easier to make a guess!

29 August at 0:49 | Open on mastodon.social

Matt Terenzio

@j12t @Sarahp Is "open social" good enough? Or would that include things like Nostr and Blue Sky and "Open Social Web" specifically means AP?

(I've just ruined it as usual and confused the average user)

29 August at 2:40 | Open on mastodon.social

MizKirsten

@j12t When I first started crowing about the "fediverse" to my teenage kids, they both were utterly nonplussed because they thought I was talking about the U.S. government.

I wish we could come up with a one-word moniker. I love naming things and could spend way too many hours brainstorming ideas, ha!

29 August at 3:31 | Open on mastodon.social