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?

  • Serge TarkovskiOPM
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • AgreeableLandscape
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      4 years ago

      Technically “kingdom” isn’t plural, but means something like “a big group of people” or so, so sort of plural.

      So is the Fediverse though.

      I think you can also think of it as “the Mississippi River”.