Fedi

Mastodon refers to this setup as a "federated" one. They're also part of the "fediverse," or "fedi" for short — which simply means the sum of all servers.

Source: wiktionary

Much of this is my opinion, based on my personal observations and experiences as someone who's been all-in on fedi since November and has been on it since April 2022, starting off on Mastodon.social and moving to my own instance in November.

Source: wiktionary

"Frankly supporting meta, twitter or google joining the fediverse at this point is so completely against the entire point of the fedi that I won't even bother entering this discussion," writes one Reddit user on a discussion of Mosseri's post. "We ended up on the fedi trying to escape these companies in the first place."

Source: wiktionary