For Social experience design (SX) I use this simple notion of a sociosphere and a technosphere, where the latter should support and help satisfy the needs in the former.
An observation is that in society, generally speaking, we give too much credence to the technosphere, take innovation-equals-progress as a given, to which we must subsequently adapt ourselves. We tend to turn things around, where "digital transformation" suddenly means how humans must adapt their lives to new technology that comes to disrupt it.
The poll is phrased in the technosphere. In the sociosphere my publications should simply reach their intended audience.
By whatever technical means are most appropriate for that.
In the technosphere 'fediverse' is just a category word according to SX. In the sociosphere we are modeling prosocial solutions, and things boil down to specific social networking requirements in our solution design, that satisfy particular stakeholders' needs.
It depends on context. A generic category word, similar to web and internet, when referring to the technology side. An online social networking environment for people when referring to the socio-cultural side.