@profcarroll Yes. People won’t really get federation until they can experience Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads style cross-platform and interoperable federation in action.

With Mastodon only federation, a common reaction is “What’s the point? Why do I have to choose a server, it’s all the same.”

Then all hell breaks loose - in the best possible way of course 🙂

@Roundtrip
Obligatory pointer that the fediverse is currently something like 30% non-Mastodon & most of us are never even aware what we're seeing is from another type of server.

Which is arguably the point: Federation works TOO SMOOTHLY in some ways on the Mastodon-dominant #fediverse. If we could have higher-profile variant interpretations, people would understand better how different it can be.

[EDIT:] I.e., I think I agree with you, just trying to rephrase it.

@profcarroll

@FeralRobots @Roundtrip @profcarroll

Well mastodon doesn’t indicate where anything comes from. It all looks the same and therefore like it’s coming from mastodon.

Other platforms have little icons indicating where something comes from. Which is cool. You learn what people’s platform choices are and sometimes you don’t recognise the logo and wonder what it is. Enhances the sense of diversity, which mastodon does a decent job of pretending doesn’t exist.