There’s the metaverse, the multiverse, the spider-verse — and the fediverse. While arguably the least exciting of the names, the last is the -verse that seems most imminently real, as platforms like Instagram begin to adopt it.

The fediverse is basically a fancy name for a world in which social platforms would share a single communications protocol called ActivityPub. Which is a fancy way of saying that the fediverse stands to make social platforms more like email clients, as Digiday senior media editor Tim Peterson explains in this video.

For a more detailed explanation of the fediverse, check out this article on Digiday’s site: https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-is-...

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