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@leanderlindahl I feel people had the wrong impression of the #forkiverse because the name.
My take is that is called #forkiverse because the original podcast was named Hard Fork, but I guess people take it as "a fork of the #fediverse which was an unintentional meaning.
@theraccoonbytes that works the same way as in the fediverse it seems.
@leanderlindahl I feel people had the wrong impression of the #forkiverse because the name.
My take is that is called #forkiverse because the original podcast was named Hard Fork, but I guess people take it as "a fork of the #fediverse which was an unintentional meaning.
I'd hoped this dog would remain asleep, but here we are...
#Mastodon and the legendary #Fediverse are closely related to the #FOSS and software development worlds
In the FOSS and software development world, the word "fork" has an extremely specific meaning, to wit;
Fork: to take existing software code, adopt it into one's own work flow, alter it, and in doing so take that source code and "fork" it in a significant new direction with new code that replaces the original, usually to add features or improve functionality
Now then, I was camping on the #Forkiverse
/public/local
for a long while and it was clear from the convos that the "Forkiverse" was being presented as a fork of Mastodon in the source code sense -- that, even though Forkiverse is still running box-stock v4.5.7 Mastodon source code, and is not in any sense a "fork" of anything
All this said (again) I'm going to hit Post and mute this convo -- once again
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)
