perhaps I wasn’t clear enough; but I’m not saying fediverse is a bad term that needs replacing; nor am I saying the threadiverse won’t succeed if it’s not called the threadiverse– I’m saying that fediverse is a broad term that encompasses all of the connected sites here; not just the thread-based forum ones–it’s a broad umbrella term, and a good one.
i get that part, but i am saying that the name is not a reason why people did or did not came here and will have zero name on the speed of the migration.
people who are here now are mostly people who are fans of opensource and were willing to go through the birth problems because of that. they did not came because of the name.
the rest of the people will number of their friends here reach some critical mass for them to notice.
you have live example of this in musk trying to rebrand twitter right now. he thinks he will change the clusterfuck he created by changing the name, but he doesn’t get that name is not the problem and will have zero effect.
unless you have real name for changing the brand (like two companies merged and you want the branding to reflect that), changing the brand is usually desperate act of clueless manager who just doesn’t have better idea.
You’re perfectly entitled to disagree, but I’d appreciate it if you didn’t try to shut down productive discussion just because you personally don’t see the need for more specific terminology.
having opposite opinion is not "shutting down the discussion"
you are overestimating my powers - i can guarantee that people will say their piece without regards to what i did or did not say ;)