fedi

Fe·di
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/ˈfɛ.di/

A form of fediverse — The distributed social media network of federated services using open standard communication protocols, especially ActivityPub and historically OStatus.

Scrabble 8

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fedi1

proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of 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.

    [2022 November 11, Sophie Kiderlin, “Musk's Twitter takeover sent thousands flocking to Mastodon. Here's what I discovered using the app”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2022
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    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.

    2023 July 29, Mark Bayliss, “Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn't quite pan out”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023

    "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."

    2023 July 6, Paolo Confino, “Mark Zuckerberg is replacing the metaverse with his 'Twitter killer' Threads and a new dream: The 'fediverse.' Here's what that is”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023

Fedi2

proper noun

alternative fedi

  1. InternetabbreviationclippingClipping of Fediverse.

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APA

fedi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fedi

MLA

“fedi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fedi. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fedi,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fedi.

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