I’ve begun to wonder about this question. There’s nothing implied in the existence of the fediverse that it will include every site, and there’s nothing implied in the existence of every non-fediverse site which would stop them from forming their own fediverse. One could technically say email providers have already achieved this, though this only really applies to email providers which doesn’t make it as useful as the fediverse we know and love. Are there actually other fediverses out there?
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Yes. Truth Social is a reskinned Mastodon that only federates with itself. I imagine there are other cases similar to that.
I’m in another fediverse called Jeremy. He goes to a different school though, so you wouldn’t know him.
In multi-fediverse theory, there are infinite fediverses where any and every possibility of fediverse exists.
No, there’s also the good alternate Fediverse where I don’t have a goatee.
ZeroNet? Tor Network? I2P?
Pingback introduced back-linking websites practically forming a network in 2002.
URLs are a form of linking content, forming a network. Although uni-directional (into one direction only).
Some platforms integrate into websites and form a form of meta-network of their content or accounts.
Most recently and popular, the AT Protocol is an alternative generic protocol similar to the fediverse, powering Bluesky.
Web-rings were also a thing in the mid-to-late '90s before search engines really took off.
Basically you’d put a banner on your site that listed a site “before” yours in the ring, the one “after” and maybe a “random” link as well.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
Web ring sounds like a cam site for beople getting rimmed
Tangentially related idea is how many sub-fediverse are their. Surly u could have 2 sets of instances that have all defederated the other group but are all federated with their own group.
We kinda had that on Lemmy until Hexbear decided to federate with Lemmy.World.
Also, I think Beehaw.org doesn’t federate with anyone, but it’s been awhile since I last checked
I can posts from beehaw on .ee
Do you get replies from anyone on Beehaw? Or is it only other people from lemmy.ee?
Beehaw defederates from most other instances. That means users on other instances can see and comment on their content, but the only users that can see those interactions are other users from the same instance.
Yeah federation with them is happening https://beehaw.org/instances
Is anything federated with Truth Social?
No
Even Exploding.Heads?
There are hundreds of other federated systems, yes.
As per what your question is asking, I’m not sure if there are fedoverse systems branched off from the “main” one. I guess Lemmy/forum stuff can’t really federate with Microblogging-style things.
Mastodon users can post to Lemmy by mentioning the community they want to post to.
There’s only one fediverse, everyone doesn’t have to talk to each other
Kind of like how some parts of our universe are so far away that they’re physically unreachable.
