Mastodon refers to this setup as a "federated" one. They're also part of the "fediverse," or "fedi" for short — which simply means the sum of all servers.]

Much of this is my opinion, based on my personal observations and experiences as someone who's been all-in on fedi since November and has been on it since April 2022, starting off on Mastodon.social and moving to my own instance in November.

"Frankly supporting meta, twitter or google joining the fediverse at this point is so completely against the entire point of the fedi that I won't even bother entering this discussion," writes one Reddit user on a discussion of Mosseri's post. "We ended up on the fedi trying to escape these companies in the first place."

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