silverpill

I suggested the following definition for Fediverse Enhancement Proposals:

The Fediverse includes applications, services and communities using the ActivityPub protocol, its predecessors, and other historically related protocols that foster decentralized and diverse social media and culture.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/544/files

Under this definition, Hubzilla and Webfinger are parts of Fediverse.

Unfortunately, this PR was bike-shedded into oblivion.

Yes, it is known as “nomadic identity”:

https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/branch/main/nomadpub.md

I think it is a useful service, because it helps small instances discover content. However, this idea is not new and another service of that kind, FediBuzz, has been operating for a long time.