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@Kari'boka @洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) That's because just about everyone who has joined the Fediverse since Elon Musk has announced to take over Twitter, which means the vast majority of Fediverse users, "learned" upon joining that the Fediverse = Mastodon. They spent at least the first few weeks or months thinking that.

After learning and accepting that there's more to the Fediverse than Mastodon, they switched to believing that Mastodon was here first. After all, it can't be any other way, especially since Mastodon is so much bigger than everything else. Gargron has invented the Fediverse and ActivityPub. And everything else is nothing but either an add-on to Mastodon or, even better, basically an alternative UI for Mastodon. Just like a Mastodon app for your phone, but for your browser.

Now, the Fediverse not being Mastodon can be something they notice themselves sooner or later, usually when they first come across a post with more than 500 characters and bold type and italics and a bullet-point list and what-have-you. Or, better yet, when someone replies to them with such stuff that can impossibly have come from Mastodon.

But nobody will notice by themselves that the Fediverse is older than Mastodon, that Gargron did not invent everything, that Mastodon is not the reference implementation and the gold standard of ActivityPub.

You can't tell right off the bat that the guy who has just replied to you is on something that's ten months or five and a half years older than Mastodon, and a Mastodon mobile app will neither show you how old an account or a channel as nor how far back its post backlog goes.

You have to go around and tell everyone individually, one by one. And even then it will be unbelievable and inconceivable.

And so, for everyone Mastodon user who understands and accepts that, you still have countless Mastodon users who want to force Mastodon's standards, Mastodon's culture, Mastodon's feature set upon the entire rest of the Fediverse. People who e.g. want to force Friendica users to drop Friendica's culture which dates back to 2010, replace it with Mastodon's culture which, in its current shape, is from late 2022, and stop using any and all features that Friendica has that Mastodon doesn't. Or even, that most Mastodon instances didn't have in late October, 2022, when the second Twitter migration wave kicked off.

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