I can't wait for that exciting new era where #Pleroma gets coverage by news outlets and everyone says that Lain invented "The Pleroma Network", even though it's just the fediverse.
@deadsuperhero Well... in that sense Mastodon is kind of the "Ubuntu" of the 2000s for federated social networks. "I run Ubuntu" / "I'm on the Mastodon network". It's part of a larger thing, though most people know it by this one specific name, and most users don't necessarily know where the boundaries are. (And like Ubuntu, Mastodon has positively focused on having a good/easy user experience.)
Hard to blame journalists or users though... it frequently takes a deep dive to figure this out.
@deadsuperhero Also like "I run Ubuntu", I think it's partly a shorthand because there's a ton of verbage and people pick the most prominently visible layer to them.
Ubuntu? GNU? Linux? GNU/Linux? Free software? Wait, free as in free speech? An Open Source operating system? A free software operating system?
Mastodon? ActivityPub? The Fediverse? A federated social network? A decentralized social network?
@deadsuperhero I didn't even mention GNOME vs Unity vs KDE in there ;)