The fediverse, explained 联邦宇宙解释说

At some point over the last year, you’ve probably come across the term “fediverse” a few times. Maybe you’ve read about it here at The Verge or seen some internet oldhead talking on their blog about how this is the internet they were hoping for back in 1993. Maybe someone sent you that “Protocols, Not Platforms” article so you’d think they were smart.
在去年的某个时候，您可能多次遇到过“fediverse”这个词。也许您在 The Vergeor 上读过相关内容，看到一些互联网老头在他们的博客上谈论这就是他们 1993 年所希望的互联网。也许有人给您发了那篇“协议，而不是平台”文章，所以您会认为他们很聪明。

The fediverse is a little like HTTP or the nitrogen to oxygen ratio in the air: very important, all around you, but probably not something you need to think about in your day to day. But if the fediverse is actually going to change the internet — and I think it might — it’s worth understanding just a little better.
联邦宇宙有点像 HTTP 或空气中的氮氧比：非常重要，就在你周围，但可能不是你每天需要考虑的事情。但如果联邦宇宙真的要改变互联网——我认为有可能——那就值得更好地理解。

So I’ve read the posts. I’ve talked to the oldheads. I have protocol-ed. I have platform-ed. And I think I can help. Let’s just dive in:
所以我读了这些帖子。我和老头子谈过。我有协议。我有平台版。我想我可以帮忙。让我们深入探讨一下：

So what is the fediverse?
那么什么是联邦宇宙呢？

It’s an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub, which allows you to port your content, data, and follower graph between networks. 
它是一个基于名为 ActivityPub 的开放协议的互连社交平台生态系统，它允许您在网络之间移植您的内容、数据和关注者图。

What? 什么？

Ugh, I know. Let me try again. 
呃，我知道。让我再尝试一次。

The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you.
Fediverse 就好像你采用了 X、TikTok、Snapchat、Instagram 和 Facebook，并使它们全部具有互操作性，这样你就可以从任何地方发布任何内容，并且保证你的所有关注者都能看到它。如果你想离开一个平台到另一个平台，你可以带着你所有的内容、你所有的关注者、你所有的一切。

Oh, so it’s a new social network! Why didn’t you just say that?
哦，原来这是一个新的社交网络！你刚才为什么不说呢？

It’s actually lots of new social networks! A bunch in the fediverse already exist, and lots more are coming. But the interconnection is the thing: instead of having all your Facebook stuff on Facebook and all your X stuff on X, the fediverse allows them to interoperate. That’s really the big shift here.
实际上有很多新的社交网络！联邦宇宙中已经存在了一批，而且还会有更多。但互连是最重要的：联邦宇宙允许它们进行互操作，而不是将所有 Facebook 内容放在 Facebook 上，将所有 X 内容放在 X 上。这确实是一个重大转变。

And this is some cool new thing someone just invented? Be honest with me: are you about to pitch me a Web3 thing?
这是某人刚刚发明的一些很酷的新东西吗？老实说：你打算向我推销 Web3 的东西吗？

Nope — it’s all based on a decades-old idea about how the internet should work and a protocol that has existed in some form since 2014 or so.
不——这一切都基于几十年前关于互联网应该如何运作的想法，以及自 2014 年左右以来以某种形式存在的协议。

So why are you all riled up about this now?
那么为什么你们现在都对这件事感到愤怒呢？

Because, over the last couple of years, a lot of people have become acutely aware of the fact that social platforms are not stable places. Think of the way Twitter changed after Elon Musk bought it; a lot of people who had found connection and community on Twitter suddenly found… not that on Twitter. And then it stopped being Twitter. Now, it’s a bank or a cable network or whatever.
因为，在过去的几年里，很多人已经敏锐地意识到社交平台并不是一个稳定的地方。想想 Twitter 在埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 收购后发生的变化；很多在 Twitter 上找到联系和社区的人突然发现……不是 Twitter 上的。然后它就不再是 Twitter 了。现在，它是银行或有线网络或其他什么。

Meanwhile, millions of creators, who spent years building followings and businesses on these platforms, are discovering just how quickly all of that can go away. Algorithms change, company priorities shift, and suddenly, you’re either hawking stuff in the TikTok Shop or you’re getting buried in the feed. 
与此同时，数以百万计的创作者花了数年时间在这些平台上建立粉丝和业务，他们正在发现所有这些都会很快消失。算法发生变化，公司优先事项发生变化，突然之间，你要么在 TikTok 商店里兜售东西，要么被淹没在信息流中。

So people are looking for platforms where they’re not stuck. Where, if they want to leave for somewhere else, they can take not just their posts but their entire list of followers with them. Where they’re not immediately cut off from all their communities just because they delete an app. You know how everyone online is like, “Give me your email, it’s the only stable thing on the web, and so it’s the most important tool for building a lasting audience” now? The fediverse offers that same stability because all your stuff is yours — the apps just borrow it.
因此，人们正在寻找不会被困住的平台。如果他们想去其他地方，他们不仅可以带走自己的帖子，还可以带走整个追随者列表。他们不会因为删除应用程序而立即与所有社区断开联系。你知道网上的每个人都是这样的，“给我你的电子邮件，它是网络上唯一稳定的东西，所以它是建立持久受众的最重要工具”？ Fediverse 提供了同样的稳定性，因为你的所有东西都是你的——应用程序只是借用它。

Why should I care about any of that?
我为什么要关心这些？

Think of all the places you follow people or the fact that you have a long history of posts on Instagram that isn’t remotely correlated to your history of posts on TikTok or Facebook or YouTube or anywhere else. Wouldn’t it be better if all that stuff were in one place, controlled by you, and you could move it from app to app and platform to platform as you wanted? And you didn’t have to be on a hundred different apps with a hundred different algorithms just to get the content you care about? And the places where you connect with your friends, or make a living as a creator, couldn’t be irrevocably destroyed by a billionaire with a sink and a bunch of weird ideas about financial products?
想想您关注人们的所有地方，或者您在 Instagram 上拥有悠久的帖子历史记录，而这些历史记录与您在 TikTok、Facebook、YouTube 或其他任何地方的帖子历史记录没有太大关系。如果所有这些东西都集中在一个地方，由您控制，并且您可以根据需要将其从一个应用程序移动到另一个应用程序、从一个平台移动到另一个平台，那不是更好吗？您不必使用一百种不同的应用程序和一百种不同的算法来获取您关心的内容？你与朋友联系的地方，或者作为创造者谋生的地方，不会被一个拥有水槽和一堆关于金融产品的奇怪想法的亿万富翁不可挽回地摧毁吗？

The ActivityPub protocol I mentioned a minute ago is a little like email: it has specifications for senders and receivers and supports lots of different kinds of content. It produces what you might call “posts” in a universally understandable format. 
我刚才提到的 ActivityPub 协议有点像电子邮件：它有发送者和接收者的规范，并支持许多不同类型的内容。它以一种普遍可以理解的格式生成您可能称之为“帖子”的内容。

Think about ActivityPub as just, like, a gigantic bucket of content. All the posts, likes, comments, followers, everything, all in the bucket. Every time anyone posts, from any of the apps I just mentioned, it goes into the bucket. Any app that wants to can read and write those posts, just as any app can write something that any other app will understand as “an email.” 
将 ActivityPub 视为一个巨大的内容桶。所有的帖子、点赞、评论、关注者，一切，都在桶里。每次有人从我刚才提到的任何应用程序发帖时，它都会被放入桶中。任何想要读取和写入这些帖子的应用程序都可以，就像任何应用程序都可以编写任何其他应用程序将理解为“电子邮件”的内容一样。

So the fediverse is just ActivityPub?
那么联邦宇宙就是 ActivityPub 吗？

Sort of. There are other protocols out there for sharing these kinds of posts, and a web-wide fediverse could be built in any of them. Bluesky uses one called the AT Protocol, which people seem to like a lot, and there’s also Farcaster and Nostr and I’m sure a bunch of others I don’t even know about. 
有点。还有其他协议可以共享此类帖子，并且可以在其中任何一个协议中构建网络范围的联邦宇宙。 Bluesky 使用一种叫做 AT 协议的协议，人们似乎很喜欢它，还有 Farcaster 和 Nostr，我确信还有很多我什至不知道的协议。

But all of this stuff only works if there is a standard, and I’d bet $10 that ActivityPub is going to be that standard. It’s the one that’s overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium, it’s the one with the most momentum, it’s the one Threads is supposedly going to support — it’s just kind of clearly winning.
但所有这些东西只有在有标准的情况下才有效，我敢打赌 ActivityPub 将成为该标准 10 美元。它是由万维网联盟监管的一个，它是最具动力的一个，也是 Threads 应该支持的一个——它显然是胜利者。

Hang on — Threads is part of the fediverse?
等一下 — Threads 是联邦宇宙的一部分？

Technically, no. Or at least not yet. But from the beginning, Meta has been promising to federate Threads, so you’d be able to read Threads posts in Mastodon or post from Mastodon and see it in Threads. It’s already rolling out some of that stuff, so I’m optimistic it’ll happen. And it’ll be the first mainstream ActivityPub app, since Mastodon isn’t quite there.
从技术上来说，不。或者至少现在还没有。但从一开始，Meta 就承诺联合 Threads，这样你就可以在 Mastodon 中阅读 Threads 帖子，或者从 Mastodon 发帖，并在 Threads 中看到它。它已经推出了其中一些东西，所以我很乐观它会发生。这将是第一个主流 ActivityPub 应用程序，因为 Mastodon 还不在那里。

Oh Mastodon! I’ve heard of Mastodon.
哦，乳齿象！我听说过乳齿象。

Nice! Mastodon has been the leading ActivityPub platform for years now.
好的！ Mastodon 多年来一直是领先的 ActivityPub 平台。

So why aren’t we just talking about Mastodon then?
那么我们为什么不只谈论乳齿象呢？

Fair enough — I probably should have mentioned it earlier. But I think people get tripped up when they get too attached to Mastodon, because Mastodon isn’t the fediverse. Mastodon is an app in the fediverse, compatible and interconnected with all of the other ones. But if you think Mastodon is too complicated or too weird about “the bird app,” that’s actually fine, because the fediverse is bigger than Mastodon.
公平地说——我可能应该早点提到这一点。但我认为，当人们过于依赖乳齿象时，他们就会被绊倒，因为乳齿象不是联邦宇宙。 Mastodon 是联邦宇宙中的一款应用程序，与所有其他应用程序兼容并互连。但如果你认为 Mastodon 对于“鸟类应用程序”来说太复杂或太奇怪，那实际上很好，因为联邦宇宙比 Mastodon 更大。

So Mastodon is one, like, thing in the fediverse?
那么乳齿象是联邦宇宙中的一种生物吗？

I’m so sorry to do this, but it’s actually slightly more complicated than that. Mastodon is both an app in a federated ecosystem and a federated app itself. Mastodon is actually a collection of many “instances” that can all talk to each other. So if you’re on mastodon.social, which is the biggest Mastodon instance, and I’m on mastodon.xyz, we’re technically using two different installations of the same app, but because of federation, we’re able to follow each other and reply to each other’s stuff.
我很抱歉这样做，但实际上比这稍微复杂一些。 Mastodon 既是联合生态系统中的应用程序，也是联合应用程序本身。乳齿象实际上是许多可以相互交谈的“实例”的集合。因此，如果您在 mastodon.social（最大的 Mastodon 实例）上，而我在 mastodon.xyz 上，那么从技术上讲，我们正在使用同一应用程序的两个不同安装，但由于联合，我们能够遵循互相回复对方的东西。

Think about it like this: Reddit is one thing, but it’s made up of lots of individual things — subreddits — each with their own rules and moderators and weird ideas about emoji. Each subreddit is its own thing, but they’re all connected via a larger system. It’s just that in this case, instead of the company Reddit running the whole thing, each of those subreddits (or Mastodon instances) is completely controlled by whoever is hosting the server.
可以这样想：Reddit 是一回事，但它是由许多单独的东西（子 Reddit）组成的，每个东西都有自己的规则和主持人以及关于表情符号的奇怪想法。每个 Reddit 子版块都有自己的东西，但它们都通过一个更大的系统连接起来。只是在这种情况下，不是由 Reddit 公司来运行整个事情，而是每个 Reddit 子版块（或 Mastodon 实例）完全由托管服务器的人控制。

What else is out there? And you can’t say Threads. You just said it’s not part of it yet.
外面还有什么？而且你不能说线程。你刚才说这还不是其中的一部分。

Pixelfed is one of my favorites, kind of like Instagram for the fediverse. Lemmy is the Reddit-y app. PeerTube is building a YouTube-style app for the fediverse. Friendica is kind of like Facebook. BookWyrm has some Goodreads-like features, and people are digging Misskey. There are lots of them! 
Pixelfed 是我最喜欢的应用程序之一，有点像联邦宇宙中的 Instagram。 Lemmy 是 Reddit 版应用程序。 PeerTube 正在为联邦宇宙构建一款 YouTube 风格的应用程序。 Friendica 有点像 Facebook。 BookWyrm 有一些类似 Goodreads 的功能，人们正在挖掘 Misskey。有很多！

I haven’t heard of any of those things.
我没有听说过这些事情。

You should try BookWyrm in particular. It’s great. But okay, let’s see: what about Flipboard, which is in the midst of pivoting its entire platform to ActivityPub? That one’s cool. Medium is also getting on board, and Mozilla’s building some stuff. Last year was the year everyone went, “The fediverse is gonna be so sick, you guys!” This year is the year products start to ship for real.
您尤其应该尝试 BookWyrm。这很棒。但好吧，让我们看看：Flipboard 怎么样？它正在将整个平台转向 ActivityPub？那个很酷。 Medium 也在加入，Mozilla 也在开发一些东西。去年是每个人都说的一年，“你们这些家伙，联邦宇宙会太恶心了！”今年是产品开始真正发货的一年。

But you’re definitely right that there’s no mainstream success story yet. Mastodon is by far the biggest thing in the fediverse, at least for now, and it’s still teeny tiny compared to Facebook and the like.
但你说得对，目前还没有主流的成功案例。 Mastodon 是迄今为止联邦宇宙中最大的东西，至少目前如此，但与 Facebook 之类的公司相比，它仍然显得微不足道。

But eventually, all these apps are supposed to work together somehow?
但最终，所有这些应用程序都应该以某种方式协同工作吗？

You’re getting it! Ultimately, it’s not important for there to be one fediverse app the size of Facebook because the fediverse can be the size of the internet. Every app just has to plug in, and it’s already humongous.
你明白了！归根结底，联邦宇宙应用程序的规模与 Facebook 一样并不重要，因为联邦宇宙的规模可以与互联网一样大。每个应用程序都只需插入即可，而且它已经非常庞大了。

But to your question: apps can work together as much or as little as they want. Lots of apps will just stick to their own universe, and at that point, the best thing about the fediverse is that you can easily move your data between apps. So if your favorite video sharing app shuts down, no problem; you just move all your stuff to another one, and you’re right back where you were.
但对于你的问题：应用程序可以根据需要或多或少地协同工作。许多应用程序只会坚持自己的宇宙，在这一点上，联邦宇宙最好的事情是你可以轻松地在应用程序之间移动数据。因此，如果您最喜欢的视频共享应用程序关闭了，也没有问题；你只需将所有东西移到另一处，然后你就回到原来的地方。

But the coolest version of the fediverse is the one in which things fully interoperate, and each app gets to treat all your posts, likes, and replies however it sees fit, and you pick the apps that feel right to you. Already, Flipboard has an algorithm for sorting posts by topic and then showing them in pretty ways for easy reading; PeerTube looks specifically for videos; Mastodon puts all the posts in order in a timeline view, kind of like Twitter. Different apps can apply different content moderation, different UIs, different sorting algorithms, different everything, but it’s all still the same stuff.
但联邦宇宙最酷的版本是事物完全互操作的版本，每个应用程序都可以按照它认为合适的方式处理您的所有帖子、点赞和回复，然后您可以选择适合您的应用程序。 Flipboard 已经有了一种算法，可以按主题对帖子进行排序，然后以漂亮的方式显示它们，以便于阅读； PeerTube 专门寻找视频； Mastodon 将所有帖子按时间顺序排列在时间轴视图中，有点像 Twitter。不同的应用程序可以应用不同的内容审核、不同的用户界面、不同的排序算法、不同的一切，但它们仍然是相同的东西。

But — and here’s where it gets cool — if you like one of my posts in Flipboard, I can, in theory, see it in my Mastodon notifications because that’s where I choose to look at what’s in the bucket. If you reply to my Mastodon post, I can read it as a comment on my article in Flipboard. All the stuff is everywhere, and you get to pick how you interact with it.
但是——这就是它变得很酷的地方——如果你喜欢我在 Flipboard 上的一篇帖子，理论上我可以在我的 Mastodon 通知中看到它，因为我选择在那里查看桶中的内容。如果您回复我的 Mastodon 帖子，我可以将其作为对我在 Flipboard 上的文章的评论来阅读。所有的东西无处不在，你可以选择如何与之互动。

Again, this all relies on everyone working together to make this stuff seamless, which is hard work, but it could be really cool.
再说一遍，这一切都依赖于每个人的共同努力，使这些东西变得无缝，这是一项艰苦的工作，但它可能真的很酷。

That does sound cool! And confusing.
听起来确实很酷！并且令人困惑。

It is very much both of those things. If you use a bunch of different apps, are you going to see all the same posts everywhere? Maybe. Are some ActivityPub apps going to be filled with content and posts that don’t belong there? Probably. This is all going to take time to sort out because it’s not just New Facebook — it’s an entirely different way of thinking about how we’re social online. 
这两件事很大程度上都是如此。如果您使用一堆不同的应用程序，您是否会到处看到相同的帖子？或许。某些 ActivityPub 应用程序是否会充满不属于其中的内容和帖子？大概。这一切都需要时间来解决，因为这不仅仅是 New Facebook 的问题——它是一种完全不同的思考我们如何在线社交的方式。

It’ll be weird for a while, but then a lot of people think it’s going to be way better.
有一段时间会很奇怪，但后来很多人认为情况会好得多。

So who am I in the fediverse? Do I get, like, a universal username?
那么我在联邦宇宙中是谁？我可以获得通用用户名吗？

I suspect, at the end of this, you will have something like a universal username. (That’s another solution to what sucks about closed platforms; you’re always racing to get your own username, and frankly, I find it very annoying to be @pierce some places and @davidpierce other places and @imdavidpierce sometimes and @davep3355 on at least one service, for some reason.)
我怀疑，最终您将拥有类似通用用户名的东西。 （这是解决封闭平台问题的另一种解决方案；你总是竞相获得自己的用户名，坦率地说，我发现在某些地方@pierce和其他地方@davidpierce，有时@imdavidpierce和@davep3355非常烦人由于某种原因，至少一项服务。）

You can always have different accounts for different things, but I think many people will end up having one main identity — your Threads username, or your Mastodon handle, or even a domain you hook up to all of these services individually — that ports across all of these systems. Think of it like your email address: it doesn’t matter what app you use to check your email or what someone else is using to email you, they just know how to reach you.
你总是可以为不同的事情拥有不同的帐户，但我认为很多人最终都会拥有一个主要身份 - 你的 Threads 用户名，或者你的 Mastodon 句柄，甚至是你单独连接到所有这些服务的域 - 跨所有服务的端口这些系统。可以将其视为您的电子邮件地址：您使用什么应用程序查看电子邮件或其他人使用什么向您发送电子邮件并不重要，他们只是知道如何联系您。

What do those usernames look like?
这些用户名是什么样的？

They’re different everywhere, but everyone’s big on @ symbols. Mastodon uses two of them, which I find ridiculous: I’m @davidpierce@mastodon.social, which looks silly. Just make it look like email addresses, people!
它们在各地都不同，但每个人都喜欢 @ 符号。 Mastodon 使用其中两个，我觉得这很荒谬：我是@davidpierce@mastodon.social，这看起来很傻。伙计们，让它看起来像电子邮件地址！

Is there money in this for any of these companies?
这些公司有钱吗？

Not so much, at least right now. In theory, there could be lots because, instead of there being one behemoth Facebook, you could have 100 companies each building a single Facebook feature and doing it better and with more focus. There’s no reason this couldn’t be a huge industry. But right now, it all seems to be at the level of “some people with some Patreons” money and not “buying several islands you didn’t even know existed” money.
没有那么多，至少现在是这样。理论上，可能会有很多，因为 Facebook 不是一个庞然大物，而是 100 家公司，每家公司都开发一个 Facebook 功能，并做得更好、更专注。这没有理由不能成为一个巨大的产业。但现在，这一切似乎都处于“一些拥有一些 Patreons 的人”资金的水平，而不是“购买几个你甚至不知道存在的岛屿”的资金水平。

Are the Facebooks of the world ever going to join the fediverse?
世界各地的 Facebook 会加入联邦宇宙吗？

Honestly, probably not. Even Meta, which is definitely invested in the idea of the fediverse, would have a truly brutal time rearchitecting Facebook and Instagram to work on ActivityPub. There’s not much chance of that happening, which is why the Threads move is so interesting. Meta’s going to try to have it both ways for a while, but ultimately, if the fediverse is going to work, it’s going to be on the back of a bunch of new services, not the ones we have now.
老实说，可能不是。即使是绝对致力于联邦宇宙理念的 Meta，在重新架构 Facebook 和 Instagram 以在 ActivityPub 上工作时也会经历一段非常残酷的时期。这种情况发生的可能性并不大，这就是为什么线程移动如此有趣。 Meta 将在一段时间内尝试两者兼顾，但最终，如果联邦宇宙要发挥作用，它将依靠一系列新服务，而不是我们现在拥有的服务。

So why would I leave Instagram and Facebook?
那么我为什么要离开 Instagram 和 Facebook？

That’s the big question. Do you like Instagram and Facebook?
这是个大问题。你喜欢 Instagram 和 Facebook 吗？

I mean, sure. It’s where all my friends are.
我的意思是，当然。这是我所有朋友都在的地方。

That is the single biggest problem for the fediverse. A lot of folks I’ve talked to say that, basically, if we’d built social media like this 20 years ago, the world would be better and smarter and we’d all be richer and better-looking. (Or something.) But we didn’t. We built it on a bunch of closed platforms that turned out to be really sticky, really lucrative for the companies that made them, and frankly kind of user-hostile. But it’s really, really hard to convince people to stop hanging out where their friends are and go join something new just because it’s better. That transition will take a long time, if it ever happens.
这是联邦宇宙面临的最大问题。和我交谈过的很多人都说，基本上，如果我们在 20 年前就建立了这样的社交媒体，世界会变得更好、更聪明，我们都会变得更富有、更漂亮。 （或者其他什么。）但我们没有。我们在一堆封闭的平台上构建了它，结果证明这些平台非常有粘性，对于制造它们的公司来说非常有利可图，而且坦率地说，对用户有些敌意。但要说服人们停止在朋友所在的地方闲逛并去参加一些新的事物，只是因为它更好，真的非常非常困难。如果这种转变发生的话，将需要很长时间。

Got it. Any other downsides?
知道了。还有其他缺点吗？

Oh, boy — where do I start? 
哦，天哪——我该从哪里开始呢？

Discovery is the big one: neither Mastodon nor anybody else has built really good fediverse-wide tools for finding people, so you’re going to have a tough time finding everyone you care about unless they all happen to be on your server. 
发现是最重要的：Mastodon 和其他任何人都没有构建出真正优秀的联邦范围内的寻找人员的工具，因此你将很难找到你关心的每个人，除非他们都恰好在你的服务器上。

This kind of decentralization also means that if you’re just a person who set up a server in your basement to host Mastodon, you’re suddenly responsible for content moderation and hosting costs and site maintenance and a bunch of other stuff. There are, and will be, big teams working on these problems. There will also be servers in basements, and things will get weird and fragile and messy. You could be one of those basement-server-havers! You could roll your own social network and also be part of the internet-wide social network. How cool is that?
这种去中心化还意味着，如果您只是一个在地下室设置服务器来托管 Mastodon 的人，那么您突然要负责内容审核、托管成本、网站维护以及其他一些事情。现在并且将会有大型团队致力于解决这些问题。地下室也会有服务器，事情会变得奇怪、脆弱和混乱。您可能是那些地下室服务器拥有者之一！您可以推出自己的社交网络，也可以成为互联网范围内的社交网络的一部分。多么酷啊？

No, thanks. 不，谢谢。

That’s fine. Probably a good call. Running a social network is a lot of work and seems to involve a lot of getting yelled at by Congress. Tread lightly.
没关系。也许是一个很好的决定。运营一个社交网络是一项繁重的工作，而且似乎还需要受到国会的大量训斥。轻踩。

You’ve convinced me, I’ll get a weird username with two @ symbols and try this out. Last question: why is it called “fediverse” again?
你已经说服了我，我会得到一个带有两个@符号的奇怪用户名并尝试一下。最后一个问题：为什么又叫“fediverse”？

One of the terms people use for this is “federated social networking.” Federation is the idea of decentralizing and distributing something so it’s not controlled and stored in a single place.
人们为此使用的术语之一是“联合社交网络”。联邦是一种去中心化和分发某些东西的想法，这样它就不会被控制和存储在一个地方。

Beyond that… I guess the metaverse was also a big thing when people were figuring out what to call this. So we got “fediverse.”
除此之外……我想当人们在思考如何称呼它时，虚拟宇宙也是一件大事。所以我们得到了“fediverse”。

We really can’t do any better than that?
我们真的不能做得更好吗？

You’re preaching to the choir here, my friend. Some people are trying to make “open social web” happen, but I think we’re stuck with the fediverse. Good news, though: if this thing really works out, you won’t have to ever think about it again. You’ll just use your apps, and the fediverse will make them awesome.
我的朋友，你正在这里向唱诗班布道。有些人试图让“开放的社交网络”成为现实，但我认为我们被联邦宇宙所困。不过，好消息是：如果这件事真的成功了，你就不必再考虑它了。您只需使用您的应用程序，联邦宇宙将使它们变得很棒。