The network is named "Fediverse", not "Mastodon".

If you call the network "Mastodon", you discriminate against all Mastodon users. You discriminate against the users of Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp-JS, Iceshrimp.NET, CherryPick, Sharkey, Catodon, Meisskey, Tanukey, Neko, Mitra, GoToSocial, snac, Socialhome, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte, Pixelfed, Vernissage, Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed, Ghost, Flipboard, WordPress, WriteFreely, Plume, Funkwhale, Bandwagon, Castopod, PeerTube, Loops, Owncast, Mobilizon, Gancio, BookWyrm, Flohmarkt and many other Fediverse server applications. Because you exclude them from the Fediverse. You exclude everyone from the Fediverse who isn't on Mastodon. And that's more than 30% of all active Fediverse users.

The server software that you probably use is named "Mastodon", not "Fediverse".

If you refer to Mastodon as "the Fediverse", you claim that the whole Fediverse is as limited as Mastodon. Which it isn't. The cool features that you want "the Fediverse" to have, the dreadful features that you want the Fediverse to never have, the Fediverse most likely already has them right now.

Mastodon doesn't. But the Fediverse does. Not the whole Fediverse, but the Fediverse.

I'm not on Mastodon. This is not a Mastodon toot. I'm on Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla). Hubzilla is almost four years older than Mastodon, and as you can see, it's (optionally) federated with Mastodon, otherwise you couldn't see this. And it has features that you may want, it has features that you may fear, and it has features that you probably couldn't even imagine.

At the same time, however, Hubzilla does not have Mastodon's culture. It has its own, older culture that is tailor-made for Hubzilla and its features. And it won't give up its culture in favour of Mastodon's culture.

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