I'm gonna be that guy and point out that when people say "the Fediverse" what they probably more specifically mean is "what's implemented by Mastodon, a social network built on top of ActivityPub" and that for certain conversations, this matters.

@danhon I mean I see at least three other replies on here from the not-mastodon parts of the Fediverse. Problem is it's not surfaced in an obvious way to mastodon users when they're interacting with other parts of the Fediverse. As for "Fediverse" = mastodon I'd say it's the opposite for the average mastodon user I interact with. More often than not they only know about mastodon and have never even heard the term Fediverse before. It isn't synonymous for them, it's completely unknown.
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@mnemonicoverload @danhon at the end, hiding the technicalities is a good thing. Hopefully with time people would more often start seeing features that their platform doesn't support and become exposed to it naturally. For example I've recently seen a poll with 4+ options and got surprised that masto instances didn't struggle interacting with it. It's a silly example, but makes a point.

@danhon @mapto Maybe it's just me but by not displaying platform icons on posts / replies like every other part of the Fediverse does it just makes me think the mastodon devs want to pretend the rest of the Fediverse doesn't exist. It comes off as both user hostile and patronizing to mastodon users.

@mnemonicoverload @danhon this is only one of several interpretations. From what I know about the context, it doesn't seem to be the intention.

@danhon @mapto I realize I'm probably being a bit uncharitable here and certainly all the Fediverse platforms have their own individual set of flaws. It just kinda rubs me the wrong way though.
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