How is the fediverse different from traditional social media? The fediverse is a decentralized network of social media platforms that freely interact, unlike traditional social media. I have a bit of a problem with the term “traditional social media”. The earliest popular form of social media was Usenet. The first one I ever used was web forums (run on phpBB or similar software). Those have a lot more “tradition” than Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, so why are they calling the latter three (deviations from the decentralized “tradition” of the Internet) “traditional social media”?! Is it just that they’re the first form of social media that the authors of that article ever used?