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 * Glossary
 ** (
@@ -3931,6 +3931,9 @@ n. [from Alvin Toffler's book title Future Shock ] A user's (or programmer's!) c
 *** featurectomy
 /fee`ch@rekt@mee/ , n. The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavors, the righteous and the reluctant. Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature. ) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
 
+*** fediverse
+What in previous times was known as "federated groupware". A federated system of servers with each supporting some number of users and using a loosely agreed upon W3C protocol, but with no overall central controller. Email and Usenet were the early version of the fediverse. In more recent times systems based around the OStatus and ActivityPub protocols are typically referred to as being the fediverse. Due to the ability to independently homestead and curate a community, the fediverse is generally preferred as a mode of public discourse by real hackers, and stands in contrast to the gigantic closed source corporate data silos which rose to dominate between 2005-2011, such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
+
 *** feep
 1. n. The soft electronic bell sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep ). 
 
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 *** shitogram
 /shitohgram/ , n. A really nasty piece of email. Compare nastygram , flame.
 
+*** shitposting
+This is the main activity of internet trolls. The act of systematically posting annoying, alarming, low quality or offensive content to social media streams, forums mailing lists or chat channels.
+
 *** shotgun debugging
 n. The software equivalent of Easter egging ; the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence. This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs.
 
@@ -8107,7 +8113,7 @@ v. To sift through large volumes of data (e.g., Usenet postings, FTP archives, o
 n. [Rice University] Programming with the lights turned off, sunglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see raster burn ). Loud music blaring from a stereo stacked in the corner is optional but recommended. See larval stage , hack mode.
 
 *** troll
-Generally annoying people on the internet, whose primary motivation is to cause disruption, distress or anger. The name comes from the grumpy and chaos-loving character from folklore and fantasy. Trolls typically have no interest in the topic or thread under which they are posting. The usual advice when encountering trolls is to ignore and/or block them, but this is sometimes not an easy solution. When unleashed within a forum, stream or mailing list trolls can quickly cause enough dissarray to destroy communities which took years to build and as such they should be recognized as an existential threat to software projects if they're not quickly dealt with. Hired trolls may also be used for political purposes by governments or corporations to disrupt rival organisations and spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
+Generally annoying people on the internet, whose primary motivation is to cause disruption, distress or anger. The name comes from the grumpy and chaos-loving character from folklore and fantasy. Trolls typically have no interest in the topic or thread under which they are posting. The usual advice when encountering trolls is to ignore and/or block them, but this is sometimes not an easy solution. When unleashed within a forum, stream or mailing list trolls can quickly cause enough dissarray to destroy communities which took years to build and as such they should be recognized as an existential threat to software projects if they're not quickly dealt with. Hired trolls may also be used for political purposes by governments or corporations to disrupt rival organisations and spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. Also see shitposting.
 
 *** tron
 v. [NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie Tron ] To become inaccessible except via email or talk (1) , especially when one is normally available via telephone or in person. Frequently used in the past tense, as in: Ran seems to have tronned on us this week or Gee, Ran, glad you were able to un-tron yourself. One may also speak of tron mode ; compare spod. Note that many dialects of BASIC have a TRON/TROFF command pair that enables/disables line number tracing; this has no obvious relationship to the slang usage.

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       <H2>Generated</H2>
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       <H2>Glossary</H2>
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         <p>
         /fee`ch@rekt@mee/ , n. The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavors, the righteous and the reluctant. Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature. ) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
         </p>
+        <H4>fediverse</H4>
+        <p>
+        What in previous times was known as "federated groupware". A federated system of servers with each supporting some number of users and using a loosely agreed upon W3C protocol, but with no overall central controller. Email and Usenet were the early version of the fediverse. In more recent times systems based around the OStatus and ActivityPub protocols are typically referred to as being the fediverse. Due to the ability to independently homestead and curate a community, the fediverse is generally preferred as a mode of public discourse by real hackers, and stands in contrast to the gigantic closed source corporate data silos which rose to dominate between 2005-2011, such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
+        </p>
         <H4>feep</H4>
         <p>1. n. The soft electronic bell sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep ). </p>
 
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         <p>
         /shitohgram/ , n. A really nasty piece of email. Compare nastygram , flame.
         </p>
+        <H4>shitposting</H4>
+        <p>
+        This is the main activity of internet trolls. The act of systematically posting annoying, alarming, low quality or offensive content to social media streams, forums mailing lists or chat channels.
+        </p>
         <H4>shotgun debugging</H4>
         <p>
         n. The software equivalent of Easter egging ; the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence. This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs.
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         </p>
         <H4>troll</H4>
         <p>
-        Generally annoying people on the internet, whose primary motivation is to cause disruption, distress or anger. The name comes from the grumpy and chaos-loving character from folklore and fantasy. Trolls typically have no interest in the topic or thread under which they are posting. The usual advice when encountering trolls is to ignore and/or block them, but this is sometimes not an easy solution. When unleashed within a forum, stream or mailing list trolls can quickly cause enough dissarray to destroy communities which took years to build and as such they should be recognized as an existential threat to software projects if they're not quickly dealt with. Hired trolls may also be used for political purposes by governments or corporations to disrupt rival organisations and spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
+        Generally annoying people on the internet, whose primary motivation is to cause disruption, distress or anger. The name comes from the grumpy and chaos-loving character from folklore and fantasy. Trolls typically have no interest in the topic or thread under which they are posting. The usual advice when encountering trolls is to ignore and/or block them, but this is sometimes not an easy solution. When unleashed within a forum, stream or mailing list trolls can quickly cause enough dissarray to destroy communities which took years to build and as such they should be recognized as an existential threat to software projects if they're not quickly dealt with. Hired trolls may also be used for political purposes by governments or corporations to disrupt rival organisations and spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. Also see shitposting.
         </p>
         <H4>tron</H4>
         <p>

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+fediverse
+
+What in previous times was known as "federated groupware". A federated
+system of servers with each supporting some number of users and using
+a loosely agreed upon W3C protocol, but with no overall central controller.
+Email and Usenet were the early version of the fediverse. In more
+recent times systems based around the OStatus and ActivityPub protocols
+are typically referred to as being the fediverse.
+
+Due to the ability to independently homestead and curate a community, the
+fediverse is generally preferred as a mode of public discourse by real
+hackers, and stands in contrast to the gigantic closed source corporate
+data silos which rose to dominate between 2005-2011, such as MySpace,
+Facebook and Twitter.