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Author identity: Steve0Greatness <steve0greatnessiscool@gmail.com>
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blog-posts/fediverse.md
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title: The fediverse
date: 2025 Feb 03
date: 2025 Feb 14
The <abbr title="federated universe">fediverse</abbr> is a technology that lets users of independant services, such as
social media and video hosting websites (à la YouTube), communicate without both users needing to be using the same
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I'm aware that most people think of decentralization as a bad word, and I know exactly why that is: cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency has, for quite a long while, been seen as bad in many ways (of which I don't feel like getting into);
because of this, it's mostly soiled the words "decentralized" and "crypto" (many even refer to cryptocurrency as just
"crypto," and genuinely STFU, stop doing that, crypto is short for cryptography; cryptocurrency is literally just short
for cryptographic currency, and it's called that for reasons that do not matter to why it's mainly seen as bad now).
"crypto," and I just want to say this: crypto is short for cryptography not cryptocurrency, that is literally just short
for cryptographic currency, and it's called that for reasons that do not matter to why it's bad).
I'm aware that's a bit rambly, but if you *really* don't like the word "decentralization," you can also call it
federation (they're not exactly the same concepts, but for the purposes of the fediverse, they are).