@alteredspecifis @JeremyMallin to speak of specific *protocols* (examples being
#ActivityPub,
#XMPP, SMTP) and *servers* (examples being
#Mastodon,
#Misskey,
#GotoSocial,
#Prodody, and Postfix), while technical and hard to understand _shorter term_, will, through clean terminology, lead to less confusion _longer term_ - they don't ambitiously posit some higher, nebulous grouping structure, namely that of the "
#Fediverse".