English
Fediverse
Blend of federation + universe.
A blend of federation + universe
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- ‘to trust’
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Latin foedus
Latin foederō ‘to seal or ratify an agreement or treaty’
Late Latin foederatio ‘federation, treaty’
French fédération
English federation
Latin ūniversus ‘whole, entire’
Old French univers ‘the whole world’
Middle English universe ‘the universe’
English universe
The story
The earliest known mention of fediverse on Twitter was in 2012. The earliest known use of fediverse by the W3C was in 2013.
Today it means
name The distributed social media network of federated services using open standard communication protocols, especially ActivityPub and historically OStatus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Fediverse