On the left, the 404 Media Ghost account (@feed @404media.co), as viewed from my GotoSocial account, via Phanpy. On the right, the same account, as viewed from a Mastodon account, also via Phanpy.
What’s interesting is that the GtS account displays the entire text of the article, while the Mastodon account only shows the preview and a link…
You can also follow the same account from PieFed, but currently there’s nothing that comes up.
Commenting on the term “Mastoverse” (I’ve also seen “Mastoland”) - I kinda like it! It’s cutesy and fun ☺️.
OTOH, it’s also exclusionary, like all the other software that implements the ActivityPub Protocol that can communicate with Mastodon - Mbin comes to mind, and PieFed is making forays into it, as well as more major Mastodon alternatives, diaspora*, Pleroma/Akkoma, GoToSocial, Misskey/Sharkey, etc. - don’t exist or are entirely irrelevant.
Which numerically speaking may well be true, but it is the opposite of welcoming. I would liken it to calling the Threadiverse as the Lemmyverse, which I see instead as rather a tankie-enriched subset of the former.
Is there some other term for the subset of the Fediverse that represents the user-centric microblogging format? Or is Mastoverse kinda it, even though it doesn’t seem to be used all that much?
Yeah that was on purpose.
Not that I’m aware of, I just made it up 🤷
It would be something like the microverse… but that sounds too generic
Fwiw Microblogverse would pair perfectly with the Threadiverse, plus it says perfectly what it is - an interconnected network of microblogging instances.
But the name will have to come from within rather than enforced from an external source, in order to be adopted by those using it most.