"The "fediverse" is the future of social media"

The great thing is that if a lot of people like Mastodon they can use it and if you don't like it you can use something differenent and you will still be able to communicate. That's the whole point.

noo the nerds need to have a superiority complex online because they can't prove anything in real life
- You don't understand: it is not good if something is popular. Then there are people outside my bubble and they ruin it.
- As a nerd that doesn't gatekeep and can prove something in real life, hey 😕
Let's go web standards!

We gatekeeping liking the Fediverse now?

Aha, so this is just a "Mastodon users bad" meme. I thought I was missing a punchline.
Kinda goes against the entire ethos

Gatekeeping the Fediverse? Cringe

To be honest, I think the best way to get Lemmy to grow in the near term will probably be getting more people to use both Mastodon and Lemmy, rather then hoping more people will shake away from reddit. I'm active on Lemmy but probably use mastodon more.

Ironically I'm the inverse. I spent some time on Mastodon, but I'm more into the Reddit/Lemmy format.

What I'd really like to see is the ActivityPub API being used to it's best ability. Theoretically, if it were better implemented on both Mastodon, Lemmy and other ActivityPub fediverse infrastructure, We could be able to see Mastodon posts on Lemmy instances as though they were always a Lemmy post, and vice versa.
- Not so sure about this one, think part of what was good about Reddit/twitter/Tumblr/whatever is that they all kept a unique identity that catered to different tastes in content
  
  If we just merge everything into one we lose that

I don't get it.

OP is gatekeeping
People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about Mastodon, not Lemmy.
- People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about.... the fediverse?
  
  Thanks I get it now but also I get how dumb this meme is
- Maybe. Or, like most users, they are aware that "fediverse" refers to the ActivityPub network as a whole, as well as adjacent networks such as matrix and diaspora.
  
  When I say fediverse, I don't mean Lemmy. If I want to refer to the part of the fediverse we are using, Lemmy/Kbin, I say threadiverse. It's just one corner of the network.
  
  I have no interest in the twitter format for social media, but people who do and enjoy mastodon, have just as much right to be excited about federation and what it can do for social media.
  
  What I don't understand, is why make this meme? Neither Lemmy nor Mastodon, is "the fediverse". Only together, do they become a "universe" of federated instances, and even disparate platforms, which yet interoperate.
  
  A Mastodon user who says they love the fediverse, likely loves it for the same reasons a Lemmy, Kbin, Friendica, Pixelfed, or MissKey user does. Where's the joke?
- or kbin ;)
- Or pleroma
- I mean it's the most successful federated platform so just by numbers of course more people are going to talk about it.
- Or Misskey/Firefish