Lemmy and Kbin are the "threadiverse", where content is submitted by users to specific groups and replies are shown in a tree-structure. In ActivityPub behind the scenes, I believe this is achieved by making non-user Actors that re-post everything @'d at them.
Mastodon is not thread based, users post as themselves and other users follow them directly. Then everything is shown lineally.
The term has actually been rolling around for a few weeks, it's just used to describe Lemmy and Kbin, since they're based around threads instead of twitter-like posts. Nothing to do with Threads by Meta
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TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page · 11 pts · 3y
Lemmy and Kbin are the "threadiverse", where content is submitted by users to specific groups and replies are shown in a tree-structure. In ActivityPub behind the scenes, I believe this is achieved by making non-user Actors that re-post everything @'d at them.
Mastodon is not thread based, users post as themselves and other users follow them directly. Then everything is shown lineally.
Wheeljack@nerdbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
I've never heard the term "threadiverse". Where are you coming across it?
db2@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y
Sounds like something Zuck thunked up to EEE us tbh.
artillect@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
The term has actually been rolling around for a few weeks, it's just used to describe Lemmy and Kbin, since they're based around threads instead of twitter-like posts. Nothing to do with Threads by Meta
Wheeljack@nerdbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Full agree. Get his product's name as part of the general term and it'd confuse people into thinking it was the original.