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This take is annoying.
But it's also not entirely @gruber's fault because the media doesn't really talk about the Fediverse, and when they do, it's as a synonym for "Mastodon".
How would @gruber know about the massive development efforts to build more user-friendly alternatives to Mastodon?
No one in the media talks about the growth of *key apps, and how they're now the #2 most used Fediverse platform.
That story isn't being told.
Whenever I tell people that Mastodon isn't the Fediverse, the Mastodon stans start saying, "Oh, you sound like a guy who's complains that Linux isn't called GNU/Linux."
No, there's a massive difference.
To most people, whether you call something Linux or GNU/Linux doesn't affect the user experience of using the OS.
Referring to the Fediverse as "Mastodon" definitely affects the user experience of using Mastodon.
If Mastodon users don't know about the Fediverse, they don't know why the messages they receive look wonky sometimes.
"Why is this guy allowed to post with more than 500 characters?" they often wonder.
"Why are there links in this post? Why can't I see things that other people can?" they'll ask.
And then they realize, "Hey, that guy can quote post! I thought Mastodon didn't allow that! How is that possible?"
Well, yeah, because those deviations require the context of the Fediverse.
@atomicpoet All true, but:
Why, as a user who just wants to do some social interaction, would I want to know about all these differences?
Ease of use ist king, and while some features of the Fediverse may be great for a group of geeks, they keep many other people from embracing it.
@dilectric It's not ease of use if the social network doesn't behave as the user believes it should.
Let me give you an example.
Joe on Lemmy is commenting on a group post.
Sally on Mastodon sees that comment, makes a reply, doesn't understand the context -- because she doesn't know that Joe is talking to a group.
And why would she? Mastodon doesn't support groups. She doesn't expect people on her social network to make use of groups.
@atomicpoet That is exactly what I mean. People don't like it because of such experiences, call it varying feature sets or missing ease of use or whatever.
You simply don't have such experiences in the cozy one-size-fits-all context of other social networks.
@dilectric Whatever the case, the fact Mastodon doesn't tell users about the other parts of the Fediverse makes it *less* usable, not more.
If people simply had an icon that indicated the message came from outside Mastodon, that would make a world of difference.