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 isn’t kbin/lemmy bigger than masto at this point?
@lampsofgold @danhon by what I can see (and this is far from the best stats available), it's far from it. What matters at this point is that the UX/affordances of Lemmy are better suited for smaller crowds. To make an example, sticking posts in less active communities leaves them as not appearing empty to newcomers
