Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKPleroma is the white van of the Fediverse (in UK many tradesmen drive around in those rather than branded vans so they can't be as easily held accountable for bad driving (at least pre-ANPR/dashcam era)), whilst Mastodon is like a big party bus your friends can also hop on to, but *you* have to deal with the extra workload of getting the correct licence, fuel and insurance costs, dealing with traffic authorities and making sure everyone on board behaves well.. >>
I guess the others like Misskey, Pixelfed etc are like the small vans seen around some Japanese fish docks which are always closely observed by cats, I think they let the tourists feed the leftover fishes to the kitties (which is why Japanese "stray/feral" cats are often well fed and healthy looking) 😸
ADHDAAALEK@vfrmedia thanks, your post led me down a fun rabbithole of the fediverse and I stumbled onto https://the-federation.info/ (snarl...) which hadn't existed when I initially got excited about mastodon a few years ago. So in your analogy what do you think "Matrix (Synapse)" and "WrtieFreely" are?
@canadalek I guess they would be the road resurfacing vehicles, and the trailer with a flashing matrix sign on the back 😆
(I live in a town where there are constant roadworks all year round..)