"Fediverse" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2020, Jessica Megarry, The Limitations of Social Media Feminism: No Space of Our Own, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 303:",
          "text": "While there is clearly a strong appetite amongst women to move away from the digital giants, Spinster is hardly free from their reach, or indeed from hostile men within the wider Fediverse network.",
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          "ref": "2022, “Decentralized networks vs the trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi et al., editors, Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 149:",
          "text": "The migration of Gab marked a major test for the Fediverse. Because no one authority controlled the policies of the network, it would be impossible to bar Gab with a single sweeping action, the way centralized social networks such as Facebook or Twitter might.",
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          "ref": "2022 November 14, Will Knight, “The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment”, in Wired, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Instead of creating a single unified platform, the the^([sic]) protocol that Mastodon uses, called ActivityPub, allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a server that hosts a Twitter-style community with its own rules. Together those servers, and other, non-Mastodon ones, form a collective of interlinked communities dubbed the “Fediverse.”",
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