I'm very certain that there are people on Mastodon who

• have joined in autumn of 2022 or even earlier
• have only ever used the official Mastodon mobile app, but never a third-party app or even the Web interface
• don't even know that Mastodon has a Web interface in the first place because it's just another phone app to them
• follow a four-digit number of Fediverse actors, all of which are on Mastodon
• are fully convinced that the Fediverse is only Mastodon, and Mastodon is an enclosed network that doesn't connect to anything else

I'm just as convinced that there are people on Mastodon to whom largely the same applies with one difference: They do not only follow Mastodon users. But they think they do. That's because those on Pixelfed, Sharkey, Friendica etc. whom they follow happen to never get caught behaving in ways that Mastodon users may find odd, they never even get caught posting more than 500 characters at once, and they never point out that the Fediverse is, in fact, not only Mastodon. And seriously, if you've never heard of Pixelfed, you may believe that even pixelfed.social is another Mastodon server.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse

@jupiter_rowland I was using my own Mastodon Instance and still have an account on mastodon.social to cross-post to. But my content and my timeline all comes through micro.blog which is its own micro-blogging suite that takes advantage of ActivityPub.