I must admit I still don't understand this fediverse concept but am I correct in thinking it's kind of a mix between Twitter and Discord? Microblogging like Twitter but a similar server concept as with Discord? Or do I understand less than I thought?
#mastodon #fediverse

@JustBobtholomew it's more like if there were multiple Facebooks, Twitters, Instagrams, etc, all run by different people, yet they can all communicate across platforms.

Discord users can't communicate across servers unless they friend each other. Even then, it's still all just discord.

There's many different softwares in the Fediverse.

@BeAware gotcha, but the different instances (I think that's what they're called) don't necessarily communicate together, right? Like it can be a closed instance. That's how I arrived at the discord thing, haha. I figured that instances could opt into the feed so to say

@JustBobtholomew well, by default, everything is opt-out.

An instance has to specifically turn off Federation if they want to be disconnected.

@BeAware yeah alright I still don't really have a good grasp of this, haha. Regardless, I think it's great! I've just seen a few people jumping to other instances and I was wondering what the difference was if it all was connected anyway. I'll continue my investigation!

@JustBobtholomew if they're moving to Mastodon instances, there could be minor changes like character limit and rules. However, the experience would stay similar. The biggest difference between Mastodon instances is the amount of people and which instances are blocked from federating. Lots of people block mastodon.social because there's moderation issues.

If they move to a different software like Pixelfed, it's an entirely different experience as it mimics Instagram and only allows posts with attached media.

There's others with different experiences as well.

I hope this makes sense somewhat.