Anytime I mention it to people IRL they look uncomfortable before I explain it’s the federated universe of distributed social platforms.
That moment of 😬 is due to the name Fediverse sounding like ‘Fetiverse.’ These people aren’t sex obsessed. Most are tech professionals who were on Fark, SA, Digg…etc.
How do y’all navigate this homonymous quirk?
Maybe it’s your pronunciation? I’d just make the ‘d’ a bit softer and put emphasis on the vowels. But then I don’t really know, my first language isn’t English and though we have the same word for “fetish”, it has a lot more harshness to the ‘t’ and especially the ‘sh’ so I’ve never seen anyone jump from one to the other when I said it out loud.