The Forkiverse people may honestly believe that their Forkiverse is a centralised walled garden, and so is mastodon.social, the other Mastodon website; CW: long (2,900 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta
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Why does someone call one single Fediverse server, one single website "-verse"?
Because they're probably stuck at freshly-switched-from-the-𝕏-iPhone-app-to-the-Mastodon-iPhone-app level of Fediverse knowledge. They probably don't simply believe that the Fediverse is only Mastodon. No, they must believe that the Fediverse is only one server, one website, namely mastodon.social. They might be unable to imagine that multiple Twitter-like websites that run the same code can communicate with each other. After all, they haven't heard of anything like this having happened before.
Which also means that the guys behind the Forkiverse think that their Forkiverse is every but as much a centralised, single-website walled garden silo as they think the Fediverse, i.e. mastodon.social, is. And that there are exactly two websites running Mastodon code now, namely mastodon.social, for which the Mastodon code was probably developed, and the Forkiverse.
If that's so, they're probably going to go completely insane once they discover that people on mastodon.social start leaving content in their Forkiverse. Or people from wholly different Mastodon servers, something they might not even expect to exist.
And that says nothing about how they'll react upon the first comment on a Forkiverse post from something that's very much, very obviously, very blatantly
not Mastodon. Like Friendica or Hubzilla or (streams) or Forte. Something that does
everything differently from Mastodon, from 33,000 times more characters to text formatting to bullet-point lists to headlines to very different-looking hashtags and mentions.
I mean, I know that Mastodon users who got used to a Mastodon-only Fediverse frequently lose their minds when they come across the first message that's obviously not from Mastodon, and whose author states and proves that this is not a Mastodon toot. And I've seen at least one tech journalist insist in Mastodon being an enclosed network itself and himself being right because he, very much unlike those filthy amateurs that drivel about Calckey and Friendica and Hubzilla and whatnot, is a journalist and therefore a professional.
But imagine you know next to nothing about Mastodon, other than that mastodon.social is a website that's an alternative to 𝕏, and that it's running on an open-source server application that's also named Mastodon. And then you set up your own website with the same code. And you think it's every bit a walled garden as 𝕏 and as mastodon.social
straight out of the box. And then you, as one of the admins and site owners, receive a comment on one of your posts that so very much blatantly not even a Mastodon toot.
Brix will be shat. This will hurt
horribly.
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