Wikipedia and other sources tend to use “the Fediverse”, but I’ve also seen just “Fediverse”. From what I know, it depends on whether the term is a proper name or just the name of a unique thing. Could someone please explain how do you think the term should be properly named and why?
The Fediverse is a proper noun though, so I always thought it would have similar grammatical rules as “the UK” or “the US”.
Those are rather plural, so the use of “the” is a bit more clear to me in this case.
What about “the People’s Republic of China”?
Technically “kingdom” isn’t plural, but means something like “a big group of people” or so, so sort of plural. “Republic” has a similar meaning IMO. Of course it’s just my interpretation as I wanted some logic behind all those tricky rules about when to use articles.
So is the Fediverse though.
I think you can also think of it as “the Mississippi River”.