I'm gonna be that guy and point out that when people say "the Fediverse" what they probably more specifically mean is "what's implemented by Mastodon, a social network built on top of ActivityPub" and that for certain conversations, this matters.
Like, practically speaking, when we say "take the useful parts of Bluesky's experiments and port them over to the Fediverse" what I think people mean in practice is "port them over to Mastodon”.
I really don't think there is a Fediverse (i.e. an underlying network-of-networks speaking a common protocol of which Mastodon is _one_ application). There's just Mastodon. That's it.
@danhon how do @bookwyrm @peertube @pixelfed not fit that common protocol (e.g. #ActivityPub)?
@todrobbins @bookwyrm @peertube @pixelfed they do, but I treat their usage as negligble
@todrobbins @bookwyrm @peertube @pixelfed yeah but... not a "great" one?
@danhon @todrobbins @bookwyrm @peertube @pixelfed in such terms mastodon with less than 1M MAU and falling is not great either. Just happens to be more than half of it, apparently not even 3/4ths.
Of course measurements are tricky.
https://fedidb.org/
