In 2010 (iirc), I simply called everything as #DDFON or the “Decentralised, Distributed, Federated, Open, Network”. It covers everything.

Last year, I started calling DDFON as #MycelialWeb and the different networks as #Mycelium or #MyceliumNetwork. This based on the idea someone submitted in my polls over the #Fediverse (sadly gone, the instances where I conducted the polls are now offline, thought there should still be some copy/archive somewhere).

In nature, a mycelium is a network of mycelia. And a collection of mycelium network is called mycelial.

So:

* #XMPP Mycelium network

* #Matrix Mycelium network

* #ActivityPub Mycelium network (or simply Fediverse)

* #ATproto Mycelium network (or simply #BlueSky / #Bsky)

* #Nostr Mycelium network

* #Diaspora Mycelium network

* and so on.

And together, these are called the #Mycelial Web.

If the above is confusing, another option is to go back to the umbrella term that was used since 2005, and somehow fell out of use: the #SocialWeb.

The umbrella term is: Social Web. And within it are the different mycelium networks. Or, “technically”, DDFON (Decentralised, Distributed, Federated, Open, Network).

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