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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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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm in another fediverse called Jeremy. He goes to a different school though, so you wouldn't know him.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But I still don't understand the dot above the i, is it Tuesday, July or never??

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I understood that reference.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago

Yes. Truth Social is a reskinned Mastodon that only federates with itself. I imagine there are other cases similar to that.

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In multi-fediverse theory, there are infinite fediverses where any and every possibility of fediverse exists.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

So there's a version of Hexbear out there that are acual socialists and not facist bootlickers?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago

No, there's also the good alternate Fediverse where I don't have a goatee.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

So Blue sky?

[–] hisao@ani.social 12 points 4 days ago

ZeroNet? Tor Network? I2P?

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lenient_vegetable@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago

Web ring sounds like a cam site for beople getting rimmed

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can posts from beehaw on .ee

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah federation with them is happening https://beehaw.org/instances

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is anything federated with Truth Social?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even Exploding.Heads?

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Long ago Usenet and BBS networks worked in a manner that we could describe as federated, if you mean a decentralized system where servers could communicate with each other. I saw something a few months ago about a modern service that sounds kind of similar, but I don’t remember the name now. It seemed interesting but I put it in the back burner and then lost it.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago

Mastodon users can post to Lemmy by mentioning the community they want to post to.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I suppose telephones were a sort of fediverse.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Dude your mom’s a sort of fediverse

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There's only one fediverse, everyone doesn't have to talk to each other

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What if a few instances only shared with each other? Wouldn't that create a second separate fediverse?

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

If a few servers are linked up and talk to each other using TCP/IP (?) but aren't connected to the wider network, that's not enough for it to be considered another internet (but it could be an intranet).

If a few instances are linked up and talk to each other using ActivityPub but aren't connected to the wider network, I think that's not enough for it to be considered another fediverse.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

Kind of like how some parts of our universe are so far away that they’re physically unreachable.