Gatekeeping the Fediverse? Cringe
We gatekeeping liking the Fediverse now?
The great thing is that if a lot of people like Mastodon they can use it and if you don’t like it you can use something differenent and you will still be able to communicate. That’s the whole point.
I don’t get it.
People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about Mastodon, not Lemmy.
Maybe. Or, like most users, they are aware that “fediverse” refers to the ActivityPub network as a whole, as well as adjacent networks such as matrix and diaspora.
When I say fediverse, I don’t mean Lemmy. If I want to refer to the part of the fediverse we are using, Lemmy/Kbin, I say threadiverse. It’s just one corner of the network.
I have no interest in the twitter format for social media, but people who do and enjoy mastodon, have just as much right to be excited about federation and what it can do for social media.
What I don’t understand, is why make this meme? Neither Lemmy nor Mastodon, is “the fediverse”. Only together, do they become a “universe” of federated instances, and even disparate platforms, which yet interoperate.
A Mastodon user who says they love the fediverse, likely loves it for the same reasons a Lemmy, Kbin, Friendica, Pixelfed, or MissKey user does. Where’s the joke?
Where’s the joke?
With this post I just described some people I’ve met on my journey through fediverse that were saying that they love fediverse meaning by it only Mastodon, as if it’s the only platform out there. It’s a small number of people, that don’t affect anything. Of course after spending more time on fediverse they find out about other platforms(and that’s good). The point of the meme is just to make a little fun of them, nothing offensive.
It’s not funny.
The primary interpretation is that you’re looking down on mastodon and it’s users in general. Not merely poking fun at an ignorant few.
